How did the Democratic Party select their Presidential candidate for the 2024 election? We understand how Democratic Party Bosses and moneyed insiders selected Kamala Harris to replace a cognitively impaired and politically wounded Joe Biden as the Party’s 2024 candidate. Nothing in this attenuated selection process was necessarily fair, democratic, and, as we know now, wise.

But apart from the bloody butchery of severing Joe Biden from the ticket and crowning Kamala Harris as the Presidential candidate, why did Party Bosses settle on Kamala? Was there something special about Kamala Harris, or was she selected because they were critically late in replacing Joe, and there wasn’t time to choose anyone else? In other words, was Kamala the “default” choice by fault of their own making?

Their first consideration was reinforcing the continuity of the Democratic Party’s Executive Branch leadership. Kamala Harris was the sitting Vice President. Her elevation to the Presidential ticket meant (by and large) continuity in policy and relationships with Congress and the broader Democratic donor group.

Moreover, the Party Bosses sought to continue to build upon what they perceived as their Party’s historic record of “Firsts.” For instance, Biden selected the first Black female, Kamala Harris, to be his Vice-Presidential running mate in 2020. Additionally, he nominated the first Black female jurist to the Supreme Court. He also filled his cabinet with a string of first-time-ever categories of openly gay men, transgender women and men, women of color, Latinos and Latinas, and even a Native American woman to critical positions.

Thus, it was natural to conclude that, keeping with this historic string of firsts, America has never had a woman, much less a woman of color, serve as President of the United States. Kamala was everything that made her a natural “First” among candidates. She is a Black woman of mixed South Asian and Jamaican Black ancestry.

Besides, all other possible Democratic political leaders who the Party Bosses could reasonably elevate to be the Party’s 2024 Presidential candidate with high-level political experience and national name recognition were White women or men.

Most of what I’ve just written are the post-facto reasons the Democratic firmament chose Kamala. But I believe the main driving force was time. They had fewer than 110 days to leave Joe Biden in the dust of his advancing cognitive malaise and form up around and behind Kamala Harris.

Nevertheless, on November 5, 2024, die-hard Progressive Democrats and even the less-so Progressives received an unmistakable message from American voters. Their communique read, “Identity Politics” is dead! Identity Politics paired with incompetence is insufferable and deadly. We’re no longer suckers for Progressivism or Democratic Party Marxism dressed up as an “Opportunity Economy” with “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)” as the rules of the road.

Radical Progressive Democrats created “Identity Politics.” In essence, Democrats wanted citizens to give up or replace their Identities as “Americans” and instead identify themselves according to their sexual orientation, gender or transgender grouping, race, ethnicity, nationality, skin color, biological sex, religion, political affiliation, or any combination of these identifiable characteristics. This way, Democrats could better identify, batch, and preach their Progressive political ideology to groups of voters who may feel underrepresented as “Black females,” “Lesbians,” or “South Asian women.”

The election day’s frank and forthright message continues by encouraging a return to a colorblind and sexual-orientation-blind society that affords no advantage or disadvantage to how adult Americans choose to live their lives.

We must stop splitting and fragmenting society into meaningless Identity groupings that serve no purpose but to pit them against each other — encouraging or bullying Americans to devalue their exclusive membership in the greatest nation on earth as Americans in favor of false Identity gods.

In times of national stress (like now) or peril, we should all ask each other, how can I help? It’s a disservice to our humanity and patriotism to say, “I’m White, I’m Black, I’m Brown, I’m Gay. Can you see me? Do you need a White woman here, or how about a Black man there? Oh, you’ve had an abortion. Well, step right up. I’m sure we can use you somewhere here in rebuilding America.

I’m not suggesting we throw the baby out with the bathwater. I’m saying we’re all owners of the most exclusive gift of God, given with His love and trust for each of us to be American, first, second, and always. We have a nation to rebuild — this America promises to lift everyone if we work, love, and trust together.