I'm sure we all use this rhetorical strategy often. I know I do. But I also think it's fair to call it out, because the implications of half the middle class feeling this way are very different from say, half of left-twitter.

To be fair to OP, I wasn't meaning to call them out (in the sense of shaming or other effects). I legitimately found it amusing that they used, or appeared to use, rhetorical methods like the one in the article.

But look at half (or more by the time I click 'reply') the comments here. They're discussing whether or not there is a War on the War on Christmas, they fell into the same rhetorical trap the article itself is discussing. This is great entertainment and a wonderful way to clear my mind at the end of work on a slow Friday.