Steve Feinstein – There are 20 Democratic contenders vying for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Or is it 21? It’s tough to keep track. Through the tiresome ranks of the Kamala Harrises, Cory Bookers, Julian Castros, Elizabeth Warrens, Beto O’Rourkes, Kirsten Gillibrands, Tulsi Gabbards, Eric Swalwells, and John Hickenloopers, among all the rest, one thing becomes glaringly apparent: All of these putative “leaders” — as astonishingly undistinguished, inexperienced, and inward-looking as they are — have one thing in common: They are flag carriers for the clichéd, predictable, unimaginative, and ultimately unproductive weltanschauung of identity politics.
United by their attempt to be the ultimate un-Trump, these candidates push the empty notion of identity politics, which has become the de facto calling card of the modern Democratic party.
Executing identity politics is a simple political strategy, really. First, identify your voting subgroups. For Democrats, that’s easy: Continue reading
Anna L. Stark – “Overwhelming” is the only word which properly describes the growing list of 2020 Presidential candidates vying to unseat Donald Trump. To date, there are the officially declared, the yet to declare, and a handful of teetering outliers. The outliers aren’t in the running per se, but in the event no Democrat is able to garner the party nomination, one of them might be persuaded to step up to the podium.
Asra Q. Nomani – In the pre-dawn darkness of today’s presidential inauguration day, I faced a choice, as a lifelong liberal feminist 
Charles Hugh Smith – Multiculturalism is often an excuse for identity politics: the (politically useful) notion that every member of an ethnic or religious group “should” support policies A, B & C and vote for candidates X, Y and Z based solely on their membership in an identity that is a useful tool for political exploitation.