Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I have read at least one assessment here that claims that the reason for the rise of Trump was due to leftist over use of poitical correctness and identity politics. Apparently that person missed at least 40 years of Republican use of identity politics starting at minimum with the Reagan story of the black welfare queen. Here is a classic example of Republican identity politics.
And then when Republicans are called on ths obvious racism, they whine about Democrats playing identity politcs and idiots actually cosign it blaming democrats with them.
One of Reagan's speech writers, who later worked for Bush 41, said their biggest problem in writing speeches was finding ways of referencing racial minorities without directly using the words "blacks" or "Hispanics". This is where the term "welfare queens" came from, as well as the whole "rural vs urban" dynamic.
Reagan and the Republican leadership thought that they could lure in the crazies (NAZI's KKK, and Moral Majority) by adopting adding a few planks to their platform, like opposing abortion, or affirmative action. They could control the crazy.
But in the end, the Reagan Republicans are now called "RINO's", and they're all gone, and the its the NAZI's and the crazies that have taken over.