Hillary Clinton was right: The parts of America that support Trump are stuck in the past

[Nasruddin]

63. Knowing

"You don't get someone to vote for you by calling them a deplorable."
You are absolutely right about this - that was a "deplorable" mistake to be sure.
As I said elsewhere, though, her opponent buried the whole country in a barrage of stuff like that and worse - and won. I guess it's a matter of charisma, and picking the right enemies. HRC was 0-2 in that instance.

To get back to your argument, it is perfectly possible to do both - we can make alliances with people with whom we have deep disagreements on important subjects, in order to accomplish a goal. HRC at some point last year mentioned Spielberg's Lincoln as a "master class" in how this was done in our past.

We allied ourselves and worked with Stalin in WWII to win that war.

But we can also be 100% clear about what and whom we are working with, what our limits are, and theirs. We didn't do that with Stalin and the Soviet Union, at least not coherently, and it cost us - the whole world - later. How do we separate stating this and discussing it, from name-calling? Is that what Hillary did, or was it made to look that way?