The article didn't brine identity politics at all. I'll agree that the swerve into politics was weird, especially since they didn't tie it in to the article at

The article didn't brine identity politics at all. I'll agree that the swerve into politics was weird, especially since they didn't tie it in to the article at all (except, perhaps, a reach for a pun involving "power"). Not all politics is identity politics, if words have any meaning.