Adventures In Identity Politics
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 14, 2008; A17Elections can be about policy, personality or identity. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is surely not about policy. The differences between the two are microscopic.
Well, there the major difference that one needs to inflame racial divisions to "win"...that would be the Clintons...and one needs to dampen those divisions to win.
That's huge.
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Identity, not policy.
OK, but that's all about identity, not policy.
It has policy choice
It has policy choice implications. Determines which solutions you're even able to see.
If it didn't no one would sweat identity politics.