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Well, we told you that identity politics would be the defining core of the Democrat party.

Post Obama, I mean, it would, you would have thought in a way that Obama and being the first black president would have kind of pushed us past identity politics.

I mean, I guess you could have made that argument in your own thinking that, okay, this is a sign of great progress.

If that is how you are measuring progress, namely that people previously disadvantaged, previously discriminated against, of course, in the case of African Americans actually enslaved, that this is incredible.

It was incredible. Barack Obama wins the presidency in 2008, and then wins re-election in 2012.

So America has, you know, as arrived, doesn't mean that everything solved, every problem solved doesn't mean you eliminate all racism or discrimination, but it certainly means my gosh, what progress.

I mean, in all these white people voted for Barack Obama and women voted for Barack Obama and so now we can kind of put all this aside.

This obsession with racial mean counting or diversity, that's the obsession.

They don't need it because people are just judging people on the basis of whether they like their ideas or whether they have a good plan for the country and whether you're black or white or Hispanic or whatever, it doesn't matter.

But that's not how it went down at all, is it? In fact, every survey showed that after eight years of Obama, the country was more divided and identity politics on the left became ascendant.

And a lot of it fed by Barack Obama, fed by the allies of Obama who, many of them thought he didn't do enough on the issue of race.

And they were upset that Barack Obama didn't really push it. He, you know, he did, remember he had the ham-fisted way of dealing with that professor Gates at Harvard, remember that, and then the beer summit.

And then we had the Ferguson and we had the riots and bald, more friddy gray. I mean, you had a trade on mark. I mean, all this stuff happened under Obama.

And Black Lives Matter movement came, I mean, Black Lives Matter. It is interesting, Black Lives Matter started during the Obama administration. That is kind of fascinating.

But fueled by these incidents where unarmed Black individuals ended up dead after an encounter with police. And that fueled this. Or in the case of Trayvon Martin with that, you know, self-appointed security neighborhood watchman.

But, you know, it's interesting to think that I was thinking about this as fall asleep last night. Identity politics, identity politics.

You would think that after all this progress that identity politics would be, I mean, the idea of identity politics would become less attractive to individuals.

But in fact, it's more, and I'll tell you why it's more attractive to the left. Because they realize that the old,

old way of debating issues, it doesn't really work for them all that well. Identity politics for them is really the only place they have left to go.

I mean, they're trying the socialism. I get that. They're back at that again. But identity politics is kind of just what they have left. They have the, you know, abortion politics. That's kind of a form of identity politics in a way.

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