Clinton Apologizes For Critique Of Trump Voters

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34. For those of you who can spare the time, here is the link to her full speech in India.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-conclave-2018/story/hillary-clinton-at-india-today-conclave-america-did-not-deserve-donald-trump-as-president-he-won-a-tv-reality-show-1186450-2018-03-10

It is a really good speech about defending democracy around the world. It is interesting the American media picked up this one sentence from a question and answer session after her speech. rather than report on her urging democracies around the globe to be an the alert to manipulation by the "reality show" type candidate that could come to a "democracy near you", spreading fear by manipulating people to hate "others".

Clinton blamed Trump and his campaign for running the reality show campaign that was effective in manipulating people into fearing immigrants and anyone outside their personal experiences. It is really easy to scare these people who live in predominately white rural/suburban communities. Clinton blamed herself for not recognizing how effective this was and for not effectively combating the propaganda during her campaign. She said she was running a traditional campaign against the reality tv campaign. Her campaign strategy was effective in areas that were pluralistic, as the fear tactics were ineffective where people know, live and work with people different from themselves. I thought it was an excellent analysis and was well received by her audience, as India is the most pluralistic country in the world and minor differences can be used by people with evil agendas to tear apart such a democratic society.