I think there are more areas where this is true than ever before, but where I firmly and fully part ways with the current mainstream of liberal wishful thinking is that we should allow someone’s subjective and historically-baseless feelings about their identity to completely define them (unless it is about race, then they are of course terrible and evil).

Society is always a negotiation between one’s felt identity, ones’s culture and history and other contingent attributes that identity originates from and orbits around. Identity, of course, comprises all these factors and more, but allowing the full neoliberal “I choose my choice” version of identity negates the very possibility of a common body politic and is designed to be divisive and alienating.

No, I am not going alt-right. I cannot stand those racist and tediously pseudo-intellectual losers. But much of the left’s current belief structure is unsupported by anything that hews close to any sort of reality of psychology or sociology — or sense.