Meghan McCain: The left will have to 'reconcile' whether identity politics trumps job qualifications

'The View' co-host Meghan McCain said Wednesday the 'progressive left' will have to 'reconcile' the question over whether race, gender, and identity politics take precedent over job qualifications.

McCain praised America as a "meritocracy," but she expressed concern that recent politically charged stories surrounding minority farmers and a Harvard discrimination lawsuit involving Asian-American applicants were examples of a "very slippery slope" for American culture. "We’re going to a place where even if people need money, even if people are qualified to get into Ivy League, race and gender is more important than your skill qualifications, the content of your character," McCain said. "It is not what Martin Luther King preached."