{"id":4442,"date":"2020-11-02T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2020-11-01T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:00:12","slug":"trump-decries-identity-politics-in-last-ditch-appeal-to-balding-blue-collar-midwestern-white-men-aged-40-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/trump-decries-identity-politics-in-last-ditch-appeal-to-balding-blue-collar-midwestern-white-men-aged-40-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Decries Identity Politics in Last-ditch Appeal to Balding Blue-collar Midwestern White Men Aged 40-65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With just a few days left before election day, the presidential race has entered its final hours. And facing a steep deficit in many national and key state polls, the Trump campaign has chosen to change absolutely nothing about how they have campaigned up to this point. In a stunning twist that has shocked pundits, Trump has, against all previous understandings of his personality and demeanor, refused to change anything about how he conducts himself and continued to blame literally anything except himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The object of his rambling ire this week? Not Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer, nor Dr. Anthony Fauci, or even reason itself\u2014but instead, according to a statement released by the Trump campaign earlier this evening,\u00a0 so-called \u201cliberal-marxist identity politics\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dealer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a member of an elite group of journalistic sources, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia Today<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breitbart<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obbumerisakenyancommie.ru<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn of this lack of change in direction early, at an exclusive press conference held today on Air Force Two. Vice President Pence personally delivered remarks after taking off from Ohio, wrapping up a two-day campaign stint as part of his \u201ckiss-your-neighbor-as-yourself\u201d tour. Mr. Pence warmly greeted the crowd, cheerfully swapping spit with select journalists before introducing Trump\u2019s schedule for Twitter fixations this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warning that the forecast was only but a model, and that events with roughly 1 in 10 odds (such as Trump feuding with Taylor Swift this week, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">among other, less important things<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) still have a good chance of happening, Pence announced that \u201cidentity politics\u201d would be the central theme of the week. Acknowledging that \u201cAmerica has ignored and denigrated for far too long the average American: the balding blue-collar midwestern white man aged 40-65,\u201d the Vice President denigrated \u201cthe elite liberal media\u2019s ridiculous fixation with narrowly defined identity groups.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese men are truly the most oppressed people in America since Christian Bakers,\u201d the Vice President said. He concluded his remarks by warning that \u201cthese liberal-marxist identity radicals\u201d were ultimately conspiring to \u201cdestroy everything that makes our conservative, traditional Christian America what it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vice President\u2019s appeal was met with an immediate positive response among the targeted demographic. Bill Holmes, a 55-year-old construction worker from Lansing, Michigan, applauded the Trump administration for \u201cstanding up against political correctness and forced diversity\u201d which he says \u201chas politicized every aspect of our culture.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI mean, hell,\u201d Holmes concluded, \u201cyou can\u2019t watch TV or play a video game nowadays without some character being shoe-horned in for idpol &#8220;politically correct&#8221; purposes. I identify as a true American, an evangelical Lutheran (Missouri Synod), and a Reaganite conservative, and in the America I come from, there are two races: white and political; two genders: male and political; and two sexualities: straight and political. It\u2019s nice to see the Trump campaign acknowledge just how ridiculous these narrow liberal snow-flake identities truly are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just a few days left before election day, the presidential race has entered its final hours. And facing a steep deficit in many national and key state polls, the Trump campaign has chosen to change absolutely nothing about how they have campaigned up to this point. In a stunning twist that has shocked pundits, Trump has, against all previous understandings of his personality and demeanor, refused to change anything about how he conducts himself and continued to blame literally anything except himself.\u00a0 The object of his rambling ire this week? Not Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer, nor Dr. Anthony Fauci, or even reason itself\u2014but instead, according to a statement released by the Trump campaign earlier this evening,\u00a0 so-called \u201cliberal-marxist identity politics\u201d. The Dealer was a member of an elite group of journalistic sources, including Russia Today, Breitbart, and Obbumerisakenyancommie.ru to learn of this lack of change in direction early, at an exclusive press conference held today on Air Force Two. Vice President Pence personally delivered remarks after taking off from Ohio, wrapping up a two-day campaign stint as part of his \u201ckiss-your-neighbor-as-yourself\u201d tour. Mr. Pence warmly greeted the crowd, cheerfully swapping spit with select journalists before introducing Trump\u2019s schedule for Twitter fixations this week. Warning that the forecast was only but a model, and that events with roughly 1 in 10 odds (such as Trump feuding with Taylor Swift this week, among other, less important things) still have a good chance of happening, Pence announced that \u201cidentity politics\u201d would be the central theme of the week. Acknowledging that \u201cAmerica has ignored and denigrated for far too long the average American: the balding blue-collar midwestern white man aged 40-65,\u201d the Vice President denigrated \u201cthe elite liberal media\u2019s ridiculous fixation with narrowly defined identity groups.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThese men are truly the most oppressed people in America since Christian Bakers,\u201d the Vice President said. He concluded his remarks by warning that \u201cthese liberal-marxist identity radicals\u201d were ultimately conspiring to \u201cdestroy everything that makes our conservative, traditional Christian America what it is.\u201d The Vice President\u2019s appeal was met with an immediate positive response among the targeted demographic. Bill Holmes, a 55-year-old construction worker from Lansing, Michigan, applauded the Trump administration for \u201cstanding up against political correctness and forced diversity\u201d which he says \u201chas politicized every aspect of our culture.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI mean, hell,\u201d Holmes concluded, \u201cyou can\u2019t watch TV or play a video game nowadays without some character being shoe-horned in for idpol &#8220;politically correct&#8221; purposes. I identify as a true American, an evangelical Lutheran (Missouri Synod), and a Reaganite conservative, and in the America I come from, there are two races: white and political; two genders: male and political; and two sexualities: straight and political. It\u2019s nice to see the Trump campaign acknowledge just how ridiculous these narrow liberal snow-flake identities truly are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}