In short, the piece normalized Hovater’s views just as reporters typically apologize for those of the “people of Trumpland”: by presenting us with a sense of his authenticity, his groundedness in what is taken to be “real” reality, as “normal” people experience it.

He referees to one interview with a neonazi by a mainstream outlet as proof that the media is sympathizing with the conservative-right. This is a case where one writes an article selectively choosing evidence in order to confirm his thesis. It could be also said that Trump won because the lack of a left that would address the problems of american working class, and Im sorry if they're not up-to-date class-conscious maoist revolutionaries, but a lot of times politically incorrect conservatives. It could also be said that it was the democratic ESTABLISHMENT that mocked them as "deplorables". Articles from liberal newspapers were written on how the democrats don't really need the "white working class" vote. It was clear where business and big-media conglomerates stood, and it was with Hillary Clinton, the progressive, the feminist, the woman who is breaking the glass ceiling.

The eruption of all these gender identities isn't even a product of "cultura-marxists" as right-wingers blame it, as it neither is a subversive cry to break out of society dominated by rigid patriarchal norms -- It is a out-growth of liberalism itself. New York state recognizes 30+ gender identities, so how can one claim that this already isn't being recognized by the political establishment mainstream? Aren't we constantly addressed as unique subjects that outta explore our subjectivity, find our inner "truth", "Just be yourself" the motto goes.