[erik_seaberg]

As Clinton put it,

> that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they’re just desperate for change.

That's not a voter who has the luxury of setting aside their own livelihood and making discrimination (against strangers) a deal-breaker.

[rrauenza]

I'd never seen that 2nd half of the quote.

It's interesting how the full quote played out. Trump supporters assumed the deplorables she was talking about was a smear against them personally, rather than identifying with the 2nd half of the quote.

But then they also never heard the 2nd half of the quote as much as the 1st.

....still, an incredibly inpolitic statement.

[sumeno]

Sure, but that also isn't the case for software engineers like the ones in the OP. These guys aren't coal miners in Appalachia, they're software engineers in Silicon Valley.