But as a theatrical piece of post-truth identity politics. Much has been made lately of post-truth politics, frequently with the peculiar subtext that Donald Trump invented the lie or Republicans generally did. She is smearing on the religious equivalent of blackface and we’re all meant to enjoy … no, not the joke. Trump did not ban Muslims and to say he did is to practice identity politics and to lie. Identity politics does the reverse, implying that one’s group matters more than one’s conscience or individual reasoning capacity.

Source: National Post February 09, 2017 15:56 UTC