Great point from Josh Kraushaar writing at National Journal:
Democrats Lose Touch With America
Hillary Clinton’s new book What Happened doesn’t live up to its title’s expectations. In her campaign tell-all, Clinton sounds like a full-fledged member of the progressive #resistance, content to blame all of her campaign’s woes on sexism, media bias, James Comey, and Russian interference. But she never fully grapples with the biggest problem that crippled her campaign, and which continues to dog her party: the Democrats’ growing cultural disconnect from the rest of the country.
Clinton’s decision to call Trump backers deplorable was one of her campaign’s low points. But the problem runs much deeper within her party. Progressives now instinctively label pro-Trump conservatives as “white supremacists,” a slur that paints nearly half the country with a racist brush. Legitimate anxieties over the country’s national security are frequently dismissed as anti-Muslim xenophobia. Politicized sportswriters assumed that the American public supports players protesting the national anthem, even when a swell of football fans across the country—including those in the most liberal . media markets—booed their own team’s players for disrespecting the flag.
I was at Costco today and it was interesting to see the book display. In Bellingham last week, there were four stacks of Hillary's book. Down here in Seattle, at a smaller Costco, there were twelve stacks. A deep blue outpost in an otherwise conservative state. It would be interesting to see the display in Walla-Walla or Boise, Idaho...
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