We’ve been talking about “identity politics” for some time. We’ve seen how “identity politics” has divided Americans and made conversation impossible.
Well, it’s good to see that one Democrat is warning his party about it in a brand new book by Professor Mark Lilla.
In a recent book review by Peter Berkowitz, he summarizes the thesis like this:
Last November, shortly after the election, he called in the New York Times for fellow liberals to face up to their party’s portion of responsibility for Trump’s victory, which Lilla traced to the rise “identity liberalism.”His contention that “American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force capable of governing” provoked outrage on the left
Let’s hope that serious Democrats take a little time off from “the resistance” or bringing down monuments, and read this book. It may help them win a few elections.
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla........https://t.co/zNJ34IYs4F via @amazon— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 27, 2017
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