{"id":1521,"date":"2016-11-10T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T05:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2016-11-10T23:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T05:20:31","slug":"why-identity-politics-has-gone-the-way-of-vhs-tapes-and-walkmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/11\/why-identity-politics-has-gone-the-way-of-vhs-tapes-and-walkmans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;identity politics&#8221; has gone the way of VHS tapes and Walkmans"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/621631698\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 81.649832% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/621631698?et=olIMVvkrT7trDRJK4ELrNg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=2NyunKeNaha0czXCZGHUtUqeJaH_mtYKdq3ul-xb7MU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The people have spoken, and their voices spoke louder than the loudest cries from the politically correct crowd. The sleeping giant of over 50 million fed-up and pushed around Americans came to the polls, and it ended in historic defeat but not only for the opposing candidate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The only thing sweeter than a victory against Hillary Clinton was the spear of death that pierced the heart of identity politics that have dominated the last eight years during the Obama administration. We the People were sick and tired of being called \u201cdeplorable,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d and \u201chomophobic\u201d by a loud-mouthed Left that decided we must be the worst kind of people on Earth for having conservative viewpoints. But we pushed back and used the voice that counts: our vote.<\/p>\n<p>I like what conservative pundit <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2016\/11\/08\/identity-politics-in-america-a-post-mortem\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> had to say\u00a0about this in a recent piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The good news is that after being blasted as haters by Clinton\u2019s hate-filled minions, after being slapped down as racial \u201ccowards\u201d by Clintonite holdover Eric Holder, after being lambasted as \u201cxenophobes\u201d and \u201cnativists\u201d by immigration expansionists in both parties, after enduring a string of faked hate crimes blamed on conservatives, after ceaseless accusations of \u201cIslamophobia\u201d in the wake of jihad attacks on American soil, after baseless accusations of \u201chomophobia\u201d for protesting the government\u2019s gay wedding cake coercion, and after mourning a growing list of police officers ambushed and targeted by violent thugs seeking racial vengeance, an undeniable movement of citizens in the 2016 election cycle decided to push back\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Beltway chin-pullers expediently focused on Trump\u2019s white and conservative supporters who are rightly sick and tired of social justice double standards. But they ignored the increasingly vocal constituency of hyphen-free, label-rejecting American People Against Political Correctness who don\u2019t fit old narratives and boxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another mentioned in Malkin\u2019s piece sick and tired of\u00a0the hypocritical nature of leftist politics is Peter Thiel, a gay, Silicon Valley entrepreneur who happens to be a Trump supporter. What he said to the National Press Club last week captured how perfectly the \u201cintolerant tolerance mob\u201d mobilized Trump voters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLouder voices have sent a message that they do not intend to tolerate the views of one half of the country\u2026 If you don\u2019t conform, then you don\u2019t count as diverse, no matter what your personal background.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thiel experienced this hypocrisy directly by gay lifestyle magazine\u00a0<em>The Advocate<\/em>, which\u00a0previously praised the successful investor as a \u201cgay innovator\u201d but turned on him after finding out he is a libertarian and a fan of small government. The magazine actually claimed he is no longer gay. Now, that\u2019s tolerance for you!<\/p>\n<p>Malkin rightly concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump\u2019s eclectic coalition was bound by that common thread: disaffected individuals tired of being told they don\u2019t count and discounted because their views do not properly \u201cmatch\u201d their gender, chromosomes, skin color or ethnicity. That is exactly why the more they and their nominee were demonized, the stronger their support grew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat Trump represents isn\u2019t crazy, and it\u2019s not going away,\u201d Thiel said.<\/p>\n<p>I agree. 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