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There's no identity politics as dangerous as the identity politics of dominant groups who feel their power and status is being threatened. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
The hard question for politics in our age is how to calm the reaction rather than appeasing it by demanding the concessions be made by people who've already made so many.
I think there are more examples of this being done successfully than people tend to admit. California, for instance, is imperfect, but it's a functioning, proud, multiethnic liberal democracy.
Anyway, I really recommend this @zackbeauchamp piece. It's one of the clearest analyses of where Western politics is, and where it's going, that I've read. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
