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Politics tamfitronics If there’s one thing right-wing commentatorsare clear on about Fatima Payman, it’s that she represents a case of identity politics — with all the inevitable condemnation that goes with it, because “identity politics” is thrown about with about as much care as “woke”. Indeed, they may as well be synonyms for the right.According to one right-wing Labor voice, however, the Payman saga illustrates how Labor is the only bulwark between civilization and the chaos of identity politics.“Progressivism worships at the altar of individualism,” Nick Dyrenfurth wrote for the Financial Review. “It cuts against the grain of Labor’s communitarian belief in a society distinguished by relative material equality, of social solidarity, and opposition to dog-eat-dog neoliberalism. Paradoxically, progressivism also fetishises identity politics by pitting one group against another group in a Hobbesian war against...