If you believe in my notion that politics is division, the art of dividing a people by uniting 51 percent of them to your banner, then you understand identity politics as merely a tactic, one way of bidding for political power by uniting a fraction of a people while “otherizing” the rest. Marx was the genius that invented a class politics that divided the middle class from the working class. It was the Frankfurt School that modified the Marxist class politics into an identity politics of race and gender. Divide the classes! Divide the sexes! Divide the races! Then conquer! Down the road, a problem occurs when naive scions of the leftist tradition do not understand that the whole class and race and gender thing is not Holy Writ but just a path to power. Every politician must figure out how to divide the electorate, and one way is as good as another. But the cunning politician never forgets that it is all just bait to hook the bubbas. It is the fool that believes his...(Read Full Article)