How to Use identity politics in a Sentence

identity politics

noun
  • This is not identity politics gussied up for the market, not more virtue signaling.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In this new world disorder, the power of identity politics can no longer be denied.
    — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
  • The penchant for identity politics has become passé on the left and subject to critique.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The film touches on identity and even identity politics.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Nor can identity politics improve upon it.
    — Paul Goldman, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, there are differences over economic policies or city planning questions, but not much on identity politics.
    — Kristen Edgreen Kaufman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Here, Kapoor discusses identity politics and the power of telling a story inspired by her own childhood.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Hard to point fingers about all the identity politics after that YouTube spectacle.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Quotas, speech codes and identity politics now mocked as woke and un-American, often defied common sense.
    — Maurice O'Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Some critics of the policies say the conservative right has weaponized identity politics to attack minority groups.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Williams begins by claiming that there was a brief golden period when Americans might have joined together to avert the disaster of identity politics.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Conservatives have been decrying identity politics for years, and liberals have been just as vigorously espousing them as key to winning races.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Conservatives have been decrying identity politics for years, and liberals have been just as vigorously espousing them as key to winning races.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That’s collectivist thinking, that’s identity politics.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Jacksonian distrust of elite patriotism has been increased by the country’s selective embrace of identity politics in recent decades.
    — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
  • The party adopted identity politics and institutional reform, intervening in areas where old-school Democrats felt that people’s rights should trump all.
    — Alex Rosado, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2026
  • Others objected to his support for openly gay conservatives or his unwillingness to fully endorse white identity politics.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The story had become another front in the culture war between left and right, complete with nationalism, identity politics, media spectacle and performative anger.
    — Adam G. Klein, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
  • For now, the Pretendian hunts have quieted a little, the hunters having lost credibility because of their overzealousness, and the country having grown weary of identity politics.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • For a party that prides itself on diversity, the clashes have exacerbated fierce debates over identity politics and long-standing rifts between progressives and moderates.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Elaborate wall labels drum relentlessly on themes of identity politics, the ecological crisis, colonialism, and wellness.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
  • Such a party would ditch the post-2008 obsession with identity politics and wokeism and revert to the Clinton-era message of economic growth and cultural centrism.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s largely thanks to a constant, toxic deluge of controversial identity politics that all but ensures that everyone is comfortably and effectively divided.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Millennials rose alongside the social‑media activism boom, translating identity politics into brand messaging and lifestyle choices.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Their prescription for Democrats included a plea to stop focusing on identity politics, to infuse the party with young blood and to talk about affordability issues affecting Americans.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Social media begs for it, liberal identity politics fuel it, and world-historic advances in pharmaceuticals like PreP and Doxy PEP enable it.
    — Andrew Pasquier, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
  • His book The Godless Crusade argues that the rise of right-wing populism in the West and its references to religion are driven less by a resurgence of religious fervor than by the emergence of a new secular identity politics.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Part of that is no doubt the relentless obsession with identity politics and cultural divisions, which have essentially overwhelmed the Democratic Party’s message on the kitchen table issues that often drive election outcomes.
    — Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Today, the Supreme Court’s recent decisions gutting the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action, as well as the rise of white identity politics, are once again charging the debate about how Black politics should best be organized.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • At a moment of maximum tension in both parties over political purity tests, identity politics, and the political power of Trumpism, the Texas race has become the ultimate Petri dish for the biggest questions in electoral politics in 2026.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Feb. 2026

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