Republicans may have their leadership woes, but Democrats have Hillary Clinton — even now.
She holds no office, but the former first lady, senator, secretary of state and presidential nominee still holds court on CNN, where she reminds millions of Americans why they vote Republican.
Clinton still sees the other side as deplorables.
“Maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members,” she cracked to Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Non-Democrats know that for all Clinton’s attempts to draw a distinction between Trump supporters and “sane” Republicans, she and her confreres have a low regard for anyone who doesn’t share their progressive politics.
In 2008 Barack Obama characterized voters in small-town Pennsylvania who “cling to guns or religion” as “bitter” and harboring “antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Obama was charming enough to get away with it. Clinton wasn’t — and Pennsylvania let her know it in 2016.
Nothing has changed since The Washington Post caricatured conservative Christians in 1993 as “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.”
Tellingly, a year later those voters came out in droves to help end four decades of Democratic dominance in the US House of Representatives.
Bill Clinton was president in 1994, but his wife didn’t learn the lesson.
Self-interest, if nothing else, ought to give progressives an education in taking other people’s beliefs and concerns seriously.
The “bitter clingers” saw firsthand what was happening in their towns as the jobs left while increasing numbers of immigrants arrived.
Is she STILL alive?
Her & her Liberals need Hanging for TREASON !!!!!
They won’t be SMUG in PRISON !!!!! Their Luck will run OUT !!!!!!