The death of The Consensus Opinion or Doing The Right Thing To Benefit The Most People.
Across Europe and enthusiastically embraced elsewhere, principally in North America the only real consensus now is “you’re either with us or against us”. Merkel and her soft left have created fertile ground for every self entitled idiot to dictate their own self serving agenda. You are either a woke fundamentalist on some narrow interest mission or a fascist who dares to suggest that.
When the main opposition in France, Germany, Italy, Canada and as of January, the US are increasingly right leaning nationalists, the probable outcome of their battle with federalist, increasingly left leaning apologists can only widen that gulf. Repeat in any number of nations worldwide.
Identity Politics at the expense of improving the country for all is the First World equivalent of Wealth Grabbing Dictatorship at the expense of improving the country for all in the Third World. The reality is the former is just a variation of the latter, usually exercised through iniquitous taxation policies and equally iniquitous distribution of state funding. The principal is the same, those in power take from those not in power and fund their own ends; everyone else can get fecked.
And results will be the same. People will suck up only so much.