(Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. Moreover, the legitimation of identity politics by the Democrats has finally come back to bite them. Even Bernie Sanders is urging that “we go beyond identity politics” if Democrats are ever to appeal again to the working class. But its reductio ad absurdum was the Obama doctrine of self-sacrificial subordination of U.S. interests to universal values. For the Democrats, the road back — from tribalism at home and universalism abroad — beckons.

Source: Washington Post November 25, 2016 00:22 UTC