“Mrs. Clinton proclaimed: ‘I think implicit bias is a
problem for everyone, not just police.’ She put half of Trump’s supporters in
that ‘basket of deplorables.’
People I know were angry. They were tired of being told they
were racist and bigoted as they went about the business of mowing their lawns,
writing college tuition checks and working their jobs as cops, secretaries and
teachers’ aides. They kept being told they needed to look inward, examine their
sins and judge themselves guilty. They had not forgotten…”
Deplorables
"A group of Trump supporters calling themselves the Mesa County Deplorables..."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters
"Though job loss and economic stagnation played a role in his victory, so did shame. As the principal investigator on a study of the middle class for the National Institute of Mental Health, I found that working people’s stress is often intensified by shame at their failure to 'make it' in what they are taught is a meritocratic American economy."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters
“Democrats need to become as conscious and articulate about the suffering caused by classism as we are about other forms of suffering. We need to reach out to Trump voters in a spirit of empathy and contrition. Only then can we help working people understand that they do not live in a meritocracy, that their intuition that the system is rigged is correct (but it is not by those whom they had been taught to blame) and that their pain and rage is legitimate.”
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