On Tuesday’s edition of “The Five,” co-host Greg Gutfeld said the “ghastly experiment of identity extremism” has done more to damage the Democratic Party than to help it. “Identity politics has done more to destroy the Democratic Party than anything because it reversed what we were about the melting pot which was about stressing unity over differences and identity politics went the opposite direction,” Gutfeld said. “It leaned into the very thing that we were trying to escape which was tribalism.”

GREG GUTELD, ‘THE FIVE’ CO-HOST: I’m glad you brought that up Dana. You know why? Because when you say blue collar we think who do you mean? It’s more about who you aren’t. You know when you look at the Democrat Party you don’t see blue collar. You see the polar opposite. This ghastly experiment of identity extremism, luxury beliefs held together with rage speak and victimhood. Blue collar, it’s not non-binary trans screaming about you know the evils of white privilege and Gaza politics. They aren’t blue collar without spending their afternoons on TikTok or smoking weed at the park. You know demanding others to pay for their college loans. They work for a living. They raise families. When you look at it, I mean it’s funny. That’s why the whole union thing seems so glaringly weird. Like how is the union still there? Why are they still there? There’s not a single issue that the Dems champion that resonates with, I’m gonna say it, normal people. Party was hijacked by an unhinged marginal and mentally ill activist class. Friendless activists who see in their social media footprint power and status. Nothing blue collar. Nothing real about them and now you have — I think Trump is somehow approaching the unions in a way that says it’s okay to come here. The water’s warm. Get away from these weirdos. They’re not good for you. They don’t care about you and I’ve said it a million times and I think Harold, one day you’re gonna agree with me. I think that identity politics has done more to destroy the Democratic Party than anything because it reversed what we were about the melting pot which was about stressing unity over differences and identity politics went the opposite direction. It leaned into the very thing that we were trying to escape which was tribalism. Tribes against tribes and in violence and so what we did was we pitted groups against each other into some zero-sum game and you get that you basically get like a political cannibalism. You know where if I’m not high on this pyramid, I’m talking too much pyramid, of being aggrieved, then you are and you can’t share. I’m gonna shut up.

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