Article snippet: “One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant outcome is that the age of identity liberalism must be brought to an end,” Lilla wrote in a column for the New York Times on November 18, shortly after Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election. The column was especially controversial within Clinton circles, who were still reeling from her historic defeat. Despite the blowback, Lilla has expanded on his thoughts on “the fixation on diversity in our schools” and the “moral panic about racial, gender, and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force” for a new book entitled The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics. Lilla sat down with David Remnick of the New Yorker to discuss the new book. The discussion ranged in topic from the state of higher education to Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon. “There is a quote recently that Steve Bannon, of all people, delivered,” Remnick began, “’The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I’ve got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focussed on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.’” “I just think it’s an objective fact,” Lilla said, expressing agreement with the Bannon quote. After claiming to agree with the concerns raised by Black Lives Matter, he dug in and delivered a blistering criticism of the grou... Link to the full article to read more