The landmark election of Donald Trump has both exposed and heightened the divisions on the political left. The identity politics side can be characterised as being focused on the individual identities of people - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and so forth. So class-focused leftists can still promote gender, sexuality and race issues, while those pushing identity politics can still be concerned about economic issues. Some of the divisions over identity and class are explained today in John Moore's blog post about the New Zealand left, Identity politics vs class politics: An anti-Establishment class analysis. However, these things do not matter to a New Zealand political class that is drowning in identity politics.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 24, 2016 22:55 UTC