Opinion of "identity politics"?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

"WHAT DA FUK IS IDENTITY PAWLITICS?" shouts the Staten Island restaurant owner in an Italian flag tracksuit who voted for Trump because the Democrats hate our boys in blue.

HP.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Interesting exchange going on here. I think I agree with Dule. It's useful to have a term to describe a politics that deliberately foregrounds identity-group appeals, just as we have terms for politics that deliberately foreground material self-interest appeals. That is, it's a core leftist conviction that all politics is on some level about who's controlling the economic levers, but believing that is not mutually exclusive with using a term like "class politics" to describe a particular political style. So too with "identity politics".