Your characterization of the Identity-Politics blight upon the left was informative for me. I *definitely* have lamented the loss of support the left has achieved... I am from Kentucky deep in Trump country, and one the two most commonly touted reasons to reject the left is their lack of connection to reality wrt sexuality. I think the characterization is not entirely fair since part of what the left cares about is support for trans rights and such, which is also often not entirely supported by the right. but much of their loss of support stems from "woke analysis" of the world. ... we've taken our eye off the ball.