By Selwyn Duke

It wasn’t seven years ago. Barack Obama, once hailed as the “post-racial president,” didn’t exactly say (this time) “They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” And he didn’t specifically mention that “they” referred to “mostly white voters,” though even the reliably left-wing Washington Post wrote that such people are precisely about whom Obama was talking. But when the president said in a Monday National Public Radio interview (see video below; remarks in question begin around 26:20) that Donald Trump was exploiting “blue collar” fears, he was, as the Post’s headline informed, reviving his “‘cling to guns or religion’ analysis.”

The Gateway Pundit was even more blunt, writing “Obama Plays Race Card Against Trump,” while radio host Michael Savage echoed this with the recent observation that “blue collar” is a code term for “white men.”

Here is the relevant portion of Obama’s remarks…

Read the rest here.