Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.


	Here's California <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/california-descendants-slavery-data-disaggregation">dividing black people</a>.

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		California has become the first in the nation to require state agencies to include a separate category for descendants of enslaved people in its collection of employee data.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;Advocates say the data disaggregation will help identify and address long-held inequities within black communities. Many descendants see it as a model for other states — and the federal government —&nbsp;to follow.
</blockquote>


	An obvious point is that many of the country's highest black officials are the children of African immigrants or visitors, including Obama and Kamala Harris.&nbsp;

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		A&nbsp;2016 study&nbsp;found that in Los Angeles, the median net worth for a black descendant of enslaved people is $4,000 compared to $72,000 for a recent immigrant from the African continent.
</blockquote>


	Also obviously true. And it makes a certain amount of sense to focus affirmative action benefits on American black people rather than African immigrants. But the upshot is that this pushes further subdivisions into identity politics.

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		Organizers took a page out of Asian American advocates' book after seeing their successful effort to push the state to&nbsp;break down different ethnic groups&nbsp;in health data collection.
</blockquote>


	If you thought American identity politics wasn't divisive enough, we'll start creating black ethnic groups to build new models of privilege and oppression within the black community.

<blockquote>
	
		No one is denying that back people&nbsp;at large are marginalized in America, said Chris Lodgson, lead organizer of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California. But the kind of historical oppression he faces as a descendant has different consequences than the inequities more recent immigrants face, he added.

	
		"One of the things that is core to any group's existence is their identity," Lodgson noted. "When we use these big broad categories called black or African American, not only do we hide the differences between the different groups ... [it also] prevents us from even being able to do anything about any of those differences."
</blockquote>


	What the Axios story doesn't mention is that the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California is all about ":reparations" and this paves the way for deciding who gets them and who doesn't.


	Sorry, Kamala.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Here's <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-several-pa-republican-lawmakers-sources-say.html">some more</a> "election fortification".

<blockquote>
	
		Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

	
		At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them.

	
		The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said.
</blockquote>


	Criminalizing election strategies is about elections.


	Was the FBI actually looking for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago? I'd bet that they were looking for materials related to the electors stuff which is the current bugaboo of the Biden administration, its legal operatives, congressional investigators and the rest of the gang.


	The pattern isn't hard to spot and the timing is painfully obvious.


	A political investigation, as I wrote yesterday, is always about politics and elections.&nbsp;


	This is about the 2024 election. Biden and his allies know they can't win it at the ballot box. They're using the FBI to criminalize political opposition again.

FBI Targets PA Republicans Because This Is About the 2024 Election

Here's some more "election fortification".


	
		Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in

FBI Targets PA Republicans Because This Is About the 2024 Election

The big question about the legal legitimacy of this move comes down to this.


	As Alan Dershowitz <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/08/mar-lago-documents-center-fbi-raid-had-already-daniel-greenfield/">had pointed ou</a>t,&nbsp;"Searches and seizures should only be used when subpoenas are inappropriate because of the risk of evidence destruction."


	The feds had already gone in and asked Trump's people to secure the room. A padlock was put on. The feds didn't think it was secure enough.&nbsp;


	In June, they retrieved documents <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/politics/mar-a-lago-search-subpoena-latest/">using a subpoena</a>.&nbsp;

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		The FBI&nbsp;search at Mar-a-Lago this week&nbsp;came months after federal investigators served an earlier grand jury subpoena and took away sensitive national security documents from former President Donald Trump’s property during a June meeting, people familiar with the matter tell CNN.

	
		Investigators executed Monday’s search in part because they had developed evidence, including from at least one witness, that there were potentially classified documents still remaining at the Palm Beach, Florida, property months after the National Archives arranged for&nbsp;the retrieval of 15 boxes of documents&nbsp;that included classified information in January of this year, a person briefed on the matter said.

	
		Authorities also believed the documents remaining at Mar-a-Lago had national security implications, CNN reported earlier this week.
</blockquote>


	So why not go through the&nbsp;subpoena process? If nothing else it would have provided a veneer of legitimacy.&nbsp;


	CNN claims that negotiations turned "confrontational". So what? Get s subpoena. But that's the same reason the search warrant is being kept secret. Biden's DOJ specifically did not want to list what they were after in order to freely conduct a fishing expedition.


	Now I suspect this will be backed up by some sort of informant who will claim that the feds couldn't go through proper channels because of some sort of threat to the documents which had sat at Mar-a-Lago for years without being harmed. And the informant will likely be of the same caliber we've seen thus far.


	The FBI is being used to conduct raids of Trump and of Republicans. That's not a coincidence. It's not about the documents, it's about the election.

Feds Used a Subpoena to Remove Docs in June. Why Couldn't They Do It Again?

The big question about the legal legitimacy of this move comes down to this.


	As Alan Dershowitz had pointed out,&nbsp;"Searches and seizures should only

Feds Used a Subpoena to Remove Docs in June. Why Couldn't They Do It Again?

UPDATE: Garland has now admitted to personally approving the raid.


	Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked twice by reporters about the Mar-a-Lago raid. And twice he refused to answer.&nbsp;


	This Newsweek story, supposedly from an inside source,<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-informer-told-fbi-what-docs-trump-was-hiding-where-1732283"> claims that</a> Garland didn't specifically approve the raid.

<blockquote>
	
		The senior Justice Department source says that Garland was regularly briefed on the Records Act investigation, and that he knew about the grand jury and what material federal prosecutors were seeking. He insists, though, that Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time of the specific raid, nor was he asked to approve it. "I know it's hard for people to believe," says the official, "but this was a matter for the U.S. Attorney and the FBI."
</blockquote>


	The language here is ambiguous. It seems implausible that Garland would not have okayed such a move and while he might have avoided knowing about the timing, it's implausible that he wouldn't have signed off on the tactic itself.


	Garland keeps dodging accountability even while the media goes back and forth on whether the DOJ is being "politicized".&nbsp;


	Considering that the Garland regime just launched an effort to lynch the police officers who shot back at Breonna Taylor's drug dealer boyfriend, and insisted on talking about that rather than his decision to raid a former president in pursuit of his administration's political goals, there's really little to no ambiguity here.


	Garland's DOJ has always been politicized. But what Democrat DOJ hasn't been? The corruption of Janet Reno's DOJ paled before Eric Holder's crimes. Garland is a pale apparatchik whose job is following in their footsteps.&nbsp;

Garland Repeatedly Dodges Questions About Trump Raid

UPDATE: Garland has now admitted to personally approving the raid.


	Attorney General Merrick Garland was asked twice by reporters about the Mar-a-Lago

Garland Repeatedly Dodges Questions About Trump Raid

Blaming the FBI for the latest instances of DOJ Democrats weaponizing the system to criminalize political opposition ignores the forest for the trees.


	I know that "eliminate the FBI" is a popular take, but whatever would replace it would simply serve the same function because the problem is the federal government itself.


	There's a much better argument for eliminating the Justice Department than there is for getting rid of the FBI. Dumping the DOJ would get rid of its most pernicious civil rights component which is being aggressively used to rig elections, suppress political dissent and lynch police officers.


	But the forest here is the federal government.


	We saw in Trump's first term how thoroughly the administrative state has been corrupted when federal bureaucrats openly coordinated as members of a "resistance".


	What's really at issue here is the infrastructure of a career bureaucracy that tilts strongly leftward and wields far more power than voters or elected officials do. What people dislike about the FBI, the careerists pushing political agendas while ignoring any limits on their authority, is the entire federal government.


	That's why any national rebuilding agenda can't be separated from a small government agenda despite moves by some on the right to embrace a vision of a big government that serves them.


	What we have is a weak political system and a strong federal government. The two tend to go together. Certainly in the latter stages. If we want elections to count, we need a smaller and weaker federal government.&nbsp;


	Until we're ready to make that our agenda, the administrative state is going to rule. And it doesn't matter which alphabet soup agency, bureau or organization it's operating under the name of.


	You want an ambitious agenda? Start by eliminating the DOJ, not the FBI.

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