Both of you make good points. I’m leaning toward rlmorel’s take, with a dash of hinckley buzzard’s, and an extra twist of evil added in.
The left was once virtually defined by class warfare. Now, they’re stirring up racial animus — to the point of potentially igniting a race war. I think the left was terrified that Trump was making inroads with Blacks and Latinos — by demonstrating ways their lives could be improved; and, as a consequence, highlighting the abject failure of leftist ‘solutions’ to actually solve anything.
Cue up identity politics, to provide enough racial animus to prevent working-class people of all races from focusing on their common interests, and turn them against each other. They don’t want anyone to notice that poor whites have more in common with poor blacks and poor Latinos, than they do with uber-wealthy whites. To do that, every white male has been cast in the role of oppressor — no matter how much ‘oppression’ they, themselves are suffering from. Pure evil.
Because of the way they pit people against each other for pure power and political gain, I have come to despise the Left more than I thought I ever would.