wedge issue

“It’s their wedge issue. It’s their emotional issue,” Valladares said of Democrats.

After spending billions the last two offseasons, the Dodgers and their hefty spending highlighted a wedge issue around baseball in the run-up to next year’s CBA talks.

A Democrat and daughter of immigrant farmworkers from Mexico, Romero said that Trump and Republicans have turned immigration into a “wedge issue” while “spewing lies” about migrants with “cruel and dehumanizing” language.

The opposition made cannabis a wedge issue in last year’s elections, and having stepped into power, nearly backtracked on the reforms that made the Thai kingdom a pioneer in Southeast Asia.

He was a master of the wedge issue and flooded the public space with fake news and incendiary stories with the intent of polarizing public opinion, hollowing out the political center and letting democracy collapse of its own accord.