President Trump engaged in his own brand of identity politics before his White House tenure, tapping into white grievance and exploiting racial tensions as a political weapon against nonwhites. “The marginalized did not create identity politics,” she wrote. “When I hear people say they don’t like identity politics — I think it’s important to remember that identity politics doesn’t just apply when it’s black people or gay people or women,” Obama said in November at Rice University. “The folks who really originated identity politics were the folks who said, you know, three-fifths clause and all that stuff. That was identity politics … Jim Crow was identity politics, that’s where it started.

Source: Washington Post February 10, 2019 21:33 UTC