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20 January 2017

Stop saying identity politics caused Trump

It's a wildly unsophisticated analysis that ignores the fact that all politics is inflected by identity.

By Helen Lewis

Look, I don’t mean to be funny, but is there something in the water supply? When Mark Lilla wrote his jeremiad against “identity liberalism” in the New York Times, it was comprehensively picked over and rebutted. But this zombie take has risen again. In the last 24 hours, all these tweets have drifted across my timeline:

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