Mr. Trump is the latest iteration of identity politics that
Posted on: January 30, 2018 at 13:27:39 CT
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has been going on since at least 1964, and this is an iteration that has reached warped speed in the last few years.
How many "identity" groups have been led around and kept in a state of terminal anger by politicians of both stripes?
How many have been called any number of epithets ending in "-ist" or "-ic"?
He's just practicing a punch in the face version of it, where others did it with velvet gloves or with surrogates. Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Nixon and everyone back to at least LBJ have done it.
We are a nation of demographic voting blocks, exactly as it was designed by the creators of same.
Edited by Bulldog Bob Brown at 13:28:28 on 01/30/18