Today's identity politics took hold of liberalism in 1972. The McGovernites parceled out delegates to that year's Democratic National Convention on the basis of race (explicitly), class (implicitly), and gender (explicitly). AFL-CIO sachem Al Barkan responded to McGovern's presidential nomination by declaring: "We aren't going to let those Harvard-Berkeley Camelots take over the party." But they did.
- Fred Siegel, The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump
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