Headlines marking the passing of Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ are a window into the past, when for a brief moment during the 2008 presidential campaign he became a well-known face in debates over economic policy that Nicole Hemmer argues have been feeding a right-wing myth for decades.
Fun Fact: the elite used the exact same strategy to drum up support for:
The US Revolution. One of the Adams brothers owned a newspaper and would pen letters pretending to be uneducated laymen and forced the editors to publish them under fake names.
Isn’t this essentially what the Federalist Papers of Hamilton fame were too?
Donald Trump of course did similar as well