re: #58 The Pie Overlord!

+48D for me as well (no surprise, personally, I would class myself as +99D).

But that NYT quiz also brought out one other important point:

So although the term “identity politics” is often wielded to criticize the Democrats for focusing on race and gender, Republicans are typically more susceptible to appeals based on their shared identity than Democrats,

Quite true, but in the case of what seems like most of today’s Republicans, that “identity” - white, English-speaking, Protestant, “conservative”* - is what they imagine the default “identity” for the whole country should be.

I.e., unthinkingly deferential to power hierarchies