j.r. leonard

To all the people who didn’t vote for her, specifically the ones in the swing states. And my whole point is that your view isn’t what matters in a national election. As a NYer, mine doesn’t either

How is that dismissive? To me it seems the exact opposite.

You keep saying “to me,” without acknowledging that maybe you were the target demographic. And my whole point is that to win a national election, you’ve got to convince folks who are disinclined to support you in the first place

The only opinions I know how to express are my own. I don’t pretend to share the same views as people who didn’t vote for Clinton. I cannot speak for them. I don’t trust their intentions and I’d likely misrepresent them if I tired.

Did you read the speech section? Do you believe she isn’t inclusive of them when she says we have to empathize with them and understand them?

Maybe I was not the target demographic because I didn’t have to be persuaded to vote for the sane and normal candidate instead of the racist sexist asshole? It doesn’t seem like a heavy lift to start there, but

I think the problem here may be that you are trying to have a normative conversation and I’m having a purely descriptive one. I’m talking about what happened and why it did. Not whether it should have