Clinton: I Won the Places ‘Moving Forwards,’ Trump Won the Places ‘Looking Backwards’

“If you look at the map of the United States, there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won,” said Hillary Clinton this weekend at a speech in Mumbai. “I win the coast….I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was looking backwards.”
Clinton goes on to explain that Trump’s message was: “You didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs. You…see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.”
This weekend in The New York Times, I pondered the relationship between smug liberalism and trollish conservatism. I can only assume that it’s because Donald Trump has been extremely busy with some H.R. matters that he hasn’t made time for a retaliatory

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