The trajectory is plain to see. The more our leadership class has championed diversity and multiculturalism, the more powerful identity politics has become. Those who gravitate toward “identity” have the correct intuition that solidarity requires a shared loyalty. Because the relentless pursuit of the open-society agenda deprives them of a strong civic identity, they fall back on race, sex, sexual orientation, or some other “identity,” a process that reinforces and is reinforced by the postwar consensus. Identity politics accentuates the differences that diversity and other therapies of
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