Identity-Group Politics Is Ending Individually Possessed Rights - The American Spectator

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Identity-Group Politics Is Ending Individually Possessed Rights

The collective trumps the individual in the myopic eyes of the Left.

by J.T. Young

June 14, 2021, 10:47 AM

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By pursuing identity-group politics, liberals are provoking the attacks they claim to deplore. What the Left ignores in their drive to remake America’s definition of rights is that there are consequen...

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