If you are trying to find a consistent approach to the two parties, over time, you could argue that the Democrats were and are into identity politics (even if before the 1960s they largely rejected Blacks in order to pander to southern white who were still grumpy about the Civil War), but that the Democrats have always been for pandering to whomever they define as “the people”, going back to Jefferson and Jackson. “Jim Crow” was a Democratic invention (good pandering to southerners), though the laws against Jewish and Asian immigrants had bi-partisan support. The “woke” Democrats are still supporting “pandering” to those whom they feel are worthy (with a strong caveat, that means discriminating against those they don’t approve us).
The Republicans (and the Whigs and the Federalists) were always into support “good government” and “business”, appealing to like-minded voters on non-ethnic grounds, and rejecting identity politics.