T oo many Democrats believe that fighting for justice and equality is a losing proposition. This gets boiled down to the shorthand that Donald Trump won because Democrats were too “woke” and paid insufficient attention to the economic issues voters really care about, driving those voters away. This mindset is misguided and potentially politically suicidal. Explicitly and aggressively fighting for justice and equality is the best – and possibly the only – winning strategy at this stage of US history. Trump and his Maga movement are waging an all-out assault on the progress of the past several decades in a targeted, concerted and meticulous attack on every effort to address racism, sexism and homophobia. As Erica Green wrote in the New York Times last year, the Trump administration is working to “remedy what he sees as the disenfranchisement of white men”. Throughout US history, most people have underestimated the political appeal of white racial rage and resentment.…