The left’s complete focus on identity politics for the last two decades while ignoring all economic issues is now coming back to bite it.

But, increasingly, partisan identity is aligning with racial and religious identity, according to research by Dr. Mason. This, along with deepening partisan distrust, is creating one of the worst possible conditions in a multiethnic democracy: a growing belief that elections are a zero-sum contest for control among racial and religious groups.

Neoliberalism, of course, demands that we don’t feel we are all in this together, and the left and Democrats are just another variety of neoliberal actor these days.