When it comes to identity politics, let's be honest: Republicans play the game like the Harlem Globetrotters, whereas the Democrats come across as the hapless Washington Generals. Let’s face it: Republicans and especially President Trump have been very successful driving wedges between various demographics and pitting them against each other.

This is most obvious when it comes to race. There is no doubt that this country continues to suffer from racial strife and that some groups continue to suffer from systemic racial issues. But something interesting happened over the last decade or so which worked against the Democrats. Two terms came into our usage which illustrate this are “people of color” and “white privilege.”

I can tell you as a first-generation Indian American about all the vitriolic racial abuse I have faced over the last four decades. There have been physical attacks, verbal insults, incidents at work, at school, in the military, and walking down the street minding my own business. Having a racially ambiguous look, I have been called every slur you can think of.

I don’t want your sympathy. I just want you to understand these two things. First, the racial abuse I have dealt with my whole life doesn’t compare to what Black Americans have to deal with on a daily basis. And despite all the racial abuse I have dealt with, as an upper middle-class Indian American, I have had a bit more privilege than white people in depressed communities like Appalachia.

So as we watched Democrats paint this incredibly and wonderfully diverse country into two simplistic racial demographics — “persons of color" or “BIPOC” (Black, indigenous, and........

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