I understand that you need to win elections, but it appears that younger men want expediency and racism.

I don't think they want racism as that term would have been commonly understood in the 70's and 80's. Maybe even as late as the 1990's. I don't believe that they want it to be tolerated or acceptable for people to engage in or display active animus against members of a minority race in public or professional settings.

But they don't want to be called or treated as racist for a lot of things that are called and treated as racist by the modern Democratic party. They want to be able to have objections to affirmative action, to be in favor of stricter enforcement against unlawful immigration, to be supportive of more stringent law enforcement, and to believe in/support a more positive telling of America's history - even though doing any or all of those things might have a negative impact on minority communities.

That's racist under the Ibrahim X. Kendi definition of racism (which is that anything which isn't anti-racist is racist), and softer ones besides. But they don't think it's racist. They are tired of being told that being open and accepting of people from other races and cultures in their own personal hearts and minds isn't enough to not be racist. That they're bad people for not joining the fight against "structural racism."

IOW they believe that it's wrong to refuse to hire a black person and we don't have to purge everything named after Thomas Jefferson. That