identity politics

If you read DWT much, you know how much we distrust identity politics around here. Voting for someone because they are the same religion or ethnicity of gender, etc seems kind of primitive and politically immature. I always thought it should be about character and policy.

I've been meaning to say something about a piece I saw last week in the Washington Post by David Broockman, a political science grad student from UC Berkeley ever since I read this one finding from his research: "disengaged and infrequent voters who allegedly constitute the moderate middle are actually more likely to endorse extreme policies than politically active voters." Btoockman's premise is that the real extremists are American voters, not politicians, s

Someone's got to have the best voting record in Congress, might as well be Mark!Wednesday I got an e-mail from the Gay And Lesbian Victory Fund with the subject line "What a Night!" And what a night it was for them!

Don't assume from this picture of Sean Patrick Maloney's lovely family that he isn't a conservativeFriday Michaelangelo Signorile picked up on the theme we've been discussing here at DWT about the disappointments inherent in identity politics.