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== Current status of American liberalism ==
== Current status of American liberalism ==
According to the Gallup Organization, in the United States, 25% of the population were liberals and 36% were conservatives in 2016.<ref>[US Conservatives Outnumber Liberals by Narrowing Margin], Gallup, January of 2017</ref>
According to the Gallup Organization, in the United States, 25% of the population were liberals and 36% were conservatives in 2016.<ref>[US Conservatives Outnumber Liberals by Narrowing Margin], Gallup, January of 2017</ref>
[[File:Elizabeth Warren 2016 DNC cropped.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Elizabeth Warren]] was involved in a [[identity politics]] related controversy regarding her claim about having an Native American heritage.<ref>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100165458/elizabeth-warrens-native-american-claims-if-she-was-a-republican-the-media-would-call-her-a-racist/</ref> ]]
[[File:Elizabeth Warren 2016 DNC cropped.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|[[Elizabeth Warren]] was involved in a [[identity politics]] related controversy regarding her claim about having an Native American heritage.<ref>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100165458/elizabeth-warrens-native-american-claims-if-she-was-a-republican-the-media-would-call-her-a-racist/</ref> ]]
In 2017, the ''Financial Times'' declared about American liberalism:
In 2017, the ''Financial Times'' declared about American liberalism:
{{Cquote|...as Democrats struggle to reinvent themselves in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, their party remains captured by a toxic mix of [[identity politics]] and corporate interests. The establishment wing is still convinced that racism and [[misogyny]], not economic populism, sank Mrs Clinton, and that wooing big corporate donors is still the way to victory in the next election.
{{Cquote|...as Democrats struggle to reinvent themselves in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, their party remains captured by a toxic mix of [[identity politics]] and corporate interests. The establishment wing is still convinced that racism and [[misogyny]], not economic populism, sank Mrs Clinton, and that wooing big corporate donors is still the way to victory in the next election.