IDENTITY POLITICS IS THE LEFT’S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER. Created to do one thing, it does quite another. Created to promote an eager embrace of socialism and it’s bedrock promise of universal inclusion, identity politics only diminishes the possibility of gaining either.

IT’S AS IF THE SONG WAS WRITTEN FOR THEM. “I am woman hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore.” That’s what the women’s anthem I Am Woman says and that’s what the women of tiny Sandy Cove Nova Scotia proved the day of the International Women’s March on January 19.