His discussion of the politics of class and race — the "backlash whites" in Indiana, the affluent antiwar voters in Oregon — proves remarkably topical, as is the moral challenge of Kennedy's speeches on poverty.
In August, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who is no longer in the race, received backlash for saying a wall between the United States and Canada — which is America's second largest trading partner — was "a legitimate issue for us to look at".
Add to this failed wars against predominantly Muslim countries after terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists, a broken immigration system, and projections that non-whites will be a majority by 2042, and you have the roots of a race-based backlash.
Using means as a factor offers many of the same advantages — economic circumstances correlate closely with race — without the backlash.
Especially when I see outrage over the sexism on display in this year's Presidential race or the backlash against biased reporting about female athletes during this summer's Rio Olympics.
During the 2012 presidential election, Mr. Obama beat Mitt Romney among women by 11 percentage points, earning 55 percent of the female vote, and Republicans lost several high-profile races amid a backlash from female voters after the Republican candidates made controversial statements about rape or abortion.
Eric Holder, the attorney-general, has accused Americans of being cowards when it comes to discussing race.Backlash timeAll this poses dangers for Mr Obama.
The importance of the backlash around race and immigration inside the GOP is a central theme of a timely, careful and data-rich new book on the 2016 election by political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck.
This moment is particularly dangerous because Trump has turned partisan divisions into a proxy war over race and gender, stoking backlash to the first black president and the first woman to be a major party's presidential nominee.
Witeck pointed out that a 2013 Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed-race family sparked more backlash than a commercial for Amazon's Kindle e-reader with a gay couple in it.
