‘One of the reasons Americans re-elected Donald Trump, aside the crisis at the southern U.S.–Mexican border and the economy, was a sense of a degradation of our patriotism with identity politics vis-à-vis LGTBQ+ and Black Lives Matter agendas, to name just a couple. Any private or public disagreement instantaneously labeled one as a fascist “anti-American”. This was a failed political tactic, which the Democratic Party and most media thought would win over, by patronizing them, those they referred to as “discriminated” and “marginalized”’.