I keep getting emails from folks mad at me for not grasping why good-hearted real Americans voted for Trump. Their diagnosis is always that I'm an "intellectual" in some big-city bubble out of touch with how ordinary people live.
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Well, yeah. As a cop's son who grew up in a small Iowa town, lives in Iowa, and went to Iowa's third-best public university, it's hilariously presumptuous.
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But that's identity politics for you. It just doesn't compute that somebody on the NYT opinion page might have sterling "real America" credentials.
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