You can argue about when the contemporary era of white male reaction in American politics began. In the spring of 1995, months after a midterm election in which “angry white males” were credited with powering Republicans to a historic victory in Congress, President Bill Clinton said that it was a psychologically difficult moment “for a lot of white males — the so-called angry white male.”The angry white males who vexed Clinton in the 1990s were muted during the presidency of George W. Bush. The flowering of Donald Trump’s campaign this summer arguably represents the political peak of the angry white male. They also have a candidate at risk of a decisive defeat — one with the potential to dislodge the angry white male from the center of American politics. But with a disastrous, divisive showing in November, Trump could begin to usher the angry white male off center stage.

Source: National Post August 23, 2016 15:33 UTC