On Medium: Trump’s Second Term is a Natural Disaster
Read on about Canada’s options for riding out the storm of Trump's tariffs, imperial threats, and authoritarian dismantling of America's liberal institutions.
Having been told for decades that universal rights is a lie, that group identity is all there is to public life, that the Western canon is the preserve of Privileged Dead White Men, and that identitarian warfare is permanent, many in the West have taken up their own form of identity politics. When culture only rewards the assertion of group identity, the silent majority will want its slice of the identitarian pie. They can do identity politics too, it's called white nationalism. What goes around comes around.
Having been told for decades that universal rights is a lie, that group identity is all there is to public life, that the Western canon is the preserve of Privileged Dead White Men, and that identitarian warfare is permanent, many in the West have taken up their own form of identity politics. When culture only rewards the assertion of group identity, the silent majority will want its slice of the identitarian pie. They can do identity politics too, it's called white nationalism. What goes around comes around.
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