Class solidarity can gain 51%, Identity Politics risks pure temple over broad-church and you get endless schisms and little to show for it. Identity Politics activists suffering the narcism of petty difference and subjective triggering who put their identity above all else. The problem is the Right keep using woke to provoke culture war over reaction that the Right points to and says, ‘I told you so’. The Political Left responds to rising populism in NZ by leaning into that populism with Broadchurch Politics rather than alienating pure temple middle class Identity Politics woke dogma! Woke middle class activism has made our movement an alienating unfunny joke that the Right have weaponised.

Source: Stuff January 16, 2026 21:53 UTC