The victory for the Democratic Party in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on Tuesday was a blow to Elon Musk, who spent $20 million to elect the conservative candidate, and a win for the party’s new political strategy of targeting the “oligarchy.” 

People just tuning in to politics for the first time since November could be forgiven for wondering what happened to the Democrats’ obsession with race and racism. For roughly a decade, white supremacy was on the tongue of every Democrat in the land, from bloggers to TV pundits to former President Joe Biden.