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The return of the Angry White Man

When Newt Gingrich led the Republican Party to leadership of the House of Representatives in 1994 for the first time in 42 years, many pundits credited the revolution to the rise of “angry white men.” I can’t recollect what it was that they were angry about – I was stationed overseas and blooming at the time personally – but I do remember that was the handle sympathetic elites fashioned to what must have been an unsettling moment.

Maybe it’s the reverse side of the James Taranto’s observation that the Legions of teh Homeless!!1! tend to disappear during Democratic administrations, only to return to the steam grates once a Republican is read in, but the Aspen Times today evokes the specter of Angry White Men once again:

The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn

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