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It’s eminently clear that identity politics is the name of the game across the political spectrum.

Sure, but if we're talking about co-opting the anger around wealth inequality, that particular fight ended with Occupy Wall Street becoming Black Lives Matter.

I actually disagree somewhat. A great of MAGA rhetoric was/is about elites abusing their positions at the expense of regular folk. Trump was viewed as an insider telling people the truth about how the sausage gets made.

yeah, but MAGA is even more diffuse and ineffective as a movement than Occupy was

Occupy was seriously thinking about killing the rich, but MAGA just has some nebulous ideas that there are pedophile cannibals sneaking around and that social media and the news are heavily biased

Plus there's the fact that Occupy Wall Street was popular among pretty much everyone below a certain wealth level, but now everyone from that demographic is split up into smaller groups who hate each other: MAGA, Bernie Bros, "Hillary/Biden or You're A Nazi", etc

Can anyone recommend any solid writing about this?

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