Bill Maher schools JPR types on the left who didn't vote for Hillary

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50. The polls show it, consistently

He remains enormously popular with Republicans and independents who voted for him, more so than even Ronald Reagan was--more than any Republican president in recent history.

Those insisting Democratic voters be careful not to alienate Trump supporters have never showed a fraction of that empathy toward Democrats who disagree with them, even about something as minor as views about a single politician not even running for office. I've even seen people dismissively declaring they won't read posts by DUers they disagree with in the very threads in which they demand understanding toward white male Trump voters. It seems to me that if people truly value empathy toward others, they would demonstrate some of that themselves. Instead, we see very rigid walls, only it isn't Republicans on the other side; it's the Democratic base.

The claims of empathy are spurious, as is the argument that it's about winning elections. Elections hinge on numbers of votes. As much as some think the votes of 55,000 white male Trump voters matter more than tens of millions of Democrats, that's not how it works.

We see groups of Americans, especially Democrats, contemptuously dismissed all the time. The very people who insist that unity requires catering to the egos of Trump voters and JPR Trump defenders don't hesitate to insult groups of Democrats. We see it all the time. The argument therefore has nothing to do with unity, compassion, or winning elections. It is about values, specifically which kinds of people are valued and which are not.