Shattered: Hillary Clinton aimed at the highest glass ceiling. What broke instead was the coalition she thought would pierce it — and faith that it will happen. - There has been a lot of talk in this election about Hillary Clinton’s
failure to adequately appeal to America’s working-class white men, who
are suffering from the collapse of manufacturing and coal industries and
plagued by a heroin epidemic. But maybe a woman trying to build a
coalition of marginalized groups, and espousing policies that would help
those groups, simply could never have appealed to Trump’s base — even
though those policies would also have helped that base. Yes, Clinton was
weak on trade. Yes, she made money giving speeches to Wall Street. Yes,
she was an Establishment candidate in a populist era. But Occam’s razor
suggests that a wave of white men and women, low-income to
college-educated, who came out in unanticipated numbers to vote against
the female successor to a black president, and for a candidate whose
supporters openly proposed imprisoning and killing both of them, were
not acting wholly in response to Clinton’s waffling on TPP. Even
suggesting that, critics are told, is exacerbating the problem:
Alienating white men (and women) by noting that they responded to
racism, sexism, and xenophobia is apparently more grievous a political
miscalculation than giving voice to racism, sexism, and xenophobia.
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Israel's Drone Gift to Medvedev Could Lead to Trouble With U.S. - and Russia: Israeli agriculture minister's present to Russian PM may have been equipped with U.S. technology, not approved for export to Russia. Israel may not be in the clear with Russia, either - they want the remote control.
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loyalists plot Trump resistance: Alumni of the Obama White House spent
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