Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.
It is from this class the opposition has come to the modern world based on identity politics.
But he is also Arab-American, which makes him a nonwhite minority by the conventions of contemporary identity politics.
For adherents to identity politics, the victim is not a person, but a member of a privileged victim group.
For most of this hour, we're going to focus on identity politics.
And there is a clear pecking order of victimhood in identity politics.
Likewise, correcting the overwhelmingly white complexion of the conservative base will require more than just talking to everyone as individuals and rejecting identity politics.
However, the BJP's reputation in Karnataka has been tarnished by infighting, corruption accusations and identity politics during its five years in power in the state.
Compared with their older colleagues, they are broadly relaxed about immigration, drugs and identity politics, more concerned with child care and the environment, and more female.
To repeat, patronage identity politics did not do Romney in.
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Identity politics revolve around the narrative of victimization.
Today's dominant strain of American leftist thought is multiculturalist, not nationalist, which means leftist identity politics is mostly a matter of trying to forge alliances among disparate and potentially antipathetic ethnic and other identity groups.
Perhaps most hopeful of all, the first studies of the results show signs of a shift away from identity politics, in which voters lump together by caste or religion to back one of their own.
Rather than focus on health care or Iraq, as previous debates have, the moderators threw an odd bag of unexpected identity-politics questions at the candidates for a full hour, before turning to high-minded policy.
On Monday, the Welsh Lib Dems leader Lembit Opik called on his party to unite and forge a strong Welsh identity for the party away from Westminster politics.
And, equally, I think, among the young men who are taken to the more extremist form of politics, I think there's an identity issue there, too.
But for the PT, which claimed a monopoly on ethical politics in Brazil, the scandal has precipitated an identity crisis.
The Cornish call this "Devonwall" politics - an attempt by Devon to hi-jack Cornish identity.
He said there was a resentment that politics was too centralised in London but he said the English identity shouldn't be reflected in an English parliament or assembly.
Today, Thompson knows his actor identity is the main source of the name-and-face recognition that makes him viable in national politics.
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