>When I put on my tin foil hat (listen to that crinkling...) I wonder if the old redistributive working class left wasn't deliberately undermined by a push towa

>When I put on my tin foil hat (listen to that crinkling...) I wonder if the old redistributive working class left wasn't deliberately undermined by a push towards a more abstract, more divisive, and less politically coherent academic/intellectual left which focused on tokenism and identity politics over economic enfranchisement. Tinfoil hat? That's Thomas Frank's latest book. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/books/review/listen-liberal-and-the-limousine-liberal.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/books/review/listen-libera...