>>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html

Bravo.

... the whitelash thesis is convenient because it absolves liberals of not recognizing how their own obsession with diversity has encouraged white, rural, religious Americans to think of themselves as a disadvantaged group whose identity is being threatened or ignored. Such people are not actually reacting against the reality of our diverse America (they tend, after all, to live in homogeneous areas of the country). But they are reacting against the omnipresent rhetoric of identity, which is what they mean by “political correctness.” Liberals should bear in mind that the first identity movement in American politics was the Ku Klux Klan, which still exists. Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it.

We need a post-identity liberalism, and it should draw from the past successes of pre-identity liberalism. Such a liberalism would concentrate on widening its base by appealing to Americans as Americans and emphasizing the issues that affect a vast majority of them. It would speak to the nation as a nation of citizens who are in this together and must help one another. As for narrower issues that are highly charged symbolically and can drive potential allies away, especially those touching on sexuality and religion, such a liberalism would work quietly, sensitively and with a proper sense of scale. (To paraphrase Bernie Sanders, America is sick and tired of hearing about liberals’ damn bathrooms.)

Which is why Trump won. He shrugs off the agonizing about "damn bathrooms" because he's busy keeping a Carrier factory open. Mark my words: there are millions of black, white, Hispanic, you name it blue collar workers *and small businesspeople* all over the US who don't give a proverbial about special bathrooms for LBGT compared to a President who gets his hands dirty to save jobs. The ongoing wailing about anti-Semite and all the other grievous identity failings of Trump's appointments must be music to Trump's ears, since the words of his opponents' song actually are "We never learn! Here, have two terms!"