Apples to oranges. Functionally no one builds their identity politics around being "pro-taxi-medallions" or "pro-zoning". In contrast, one of the major players

Apples to oranges. Functionally no one builds their identity politics around being "pro-taxi-medallions" or "pro-zoning". In contrast, one of the major players in American politics made a concerted effort to fabricate a wedge issue (to mask their actual policies having become socially unpalatable), and spent decades pushing that narrative to cement it into identity politics. [1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/abortion-evangelicals-conservatives.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/abortion-evangeli... [3] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-evangelicals-history-on-the-abortion-issue https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-...