Is He Beating a Dead Mule?

Ruy Teixeira urges, presumably, the Democratic Party leadership to adopt the following principles:

• Equality of opportunity is a fundamental American principle; equality of outcome is not.
• America is not perfect but it is good to be patriotic and proud of the country.
• Discrimination and racism are bad but they are not the cause of all disparities in American society.
• Racial achievement gaps are bad and we should seek to close them. However, they are not due just to racism and standards of high achievement should be maintained forpeople of all races.
• No one is completely without bias but calling all white people racists who benefit from white privilege and American society a white supremacist society is not right or fair.
• America benefits from the presence of immigrants and no immigrant, even if illegal, should be mistreated. But border security is hugely important, as is an enforceable system that fairly decides who can enter the country.
• Police misconduct and brutality against people of any race is wrong and we need to reform police conduct and recruitment. However, more and better policing is needed to get criminals off the streets and secure public safety. That cannot be provided by “defunding the police”.
• There are underlying differences between men and women that should not all be attributed to sexism. However, discrimination on the basis of gender is wrong and should always be opposed.
• People who want to live as a gender different from their biological sex should have that right. However, biological sex is real and spaces limited to biological women in areas like sports and prisons should be preserved. Medical treatments like drugs and surgery are serious interventions that should not be available on demand, especially for children.
• Language policing has gone too far; by and large, people should be able to express their views without fear of sanction by employer, school, institution or government. Free speech is a fundamental American value that should be safeguarded everywhere.

in preference to what he says is the present Democratic strategy—pretending those concerns will go away.

I think the problem he’s facing is that those who work on campaigns or on staffs tend to be more radical than those who don’t. When you’re radicalized with respect to race, you can’t accept most of those principles or “values” as Mr. Teixeira calls them. You’ll believe the account laid out in the “1619 Project” which rules out the top four in that list. When you’re radicalized with respect to sex or sexual preference, everything bad that happens can be attributed to sex or sexual preference and rules out accepting some of the others.

He doesn’t even touch on the disparity in beliefs between “normies” and radicalized activists with respect to climate change. When you’re radicalized with respect to climate change, you attribute everything bad that happens to AGW. I suspect that most Democrats believe that human-caused climate change is happening but they still want to have their own cars, heat and cool their homes, etc. That puts them at odds with the radicalized activists and those activists are punching above their weight these days.

I would subscribe to the values he lists as I believe most Americans would. However, I think Mr. Texeira is right:

Then think of how many Democratic politicians, especially national Democrats, are willing to go on record espousing these values. Precious few.

Are there any reasonable prospect for what Mr. Teixeira is urging? Or is he beating a dead mule?