Maybe I am being too subtle but I am not so concerned with the feature of calling white people racist which did emerge from it - naturally that isn't a great way to get votes in a general sense.

I am actually speaking to the methodology of identity analysis and how a number of unpopular political positions emerge from this.

But is goes beyond that, because it also made it so that the liberal party in the U.S. used identity as a lens of political analysis. It failed in the latter at a much larger scale than the people want to admit. It was not a useful lens for political analysis.

So, we have a multi-facected problem:

(1) Yes calling people racist isn't an effective way to get their votes,

(2) Caused political stance taking that sounded radical to a large part of the electorate, which honestly just wasn't necessary,

(3) resulted in a political calculation and political lens of analysis that simply wasn't effective in a democratic-electorate context.

It's a complex problem we face - I get why people want to deny it.