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Identity politics indeed cost Kamala Harris the election — Trump's supremacist kind

Identity politics indeed cost Kamala Harris the election — Trump's supremacist kind

Rather than marking the end of identity politics, as the pundits proclaim, the 2024 election reflected the triumphal victory of the original version.

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No, Kamala Harris did not lose because of her supposed embrace of “identity politics.” Just the reverse is true: Donald Trump won because of his very real embrace of identity politics. White identity politics.

It’s one of the more popular lines of self-flagellation Democratic Party critics and strategists have taken in the wake of the disastrous 2024 ele…

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