Identity revolution

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Identity revolution has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Nov 2025). Described as a shift towards identity-based politics in affluent societies.

Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, political affiliation, caste, age, education, disability, opinion, intelligence, and social class. The term encompasses various often-populist political phenomena and rhetoric, such as governmental migration policies that regulate mobility and opportunity based on identities, left-wing agendas involving intersectional politics