Hillary Clinton destroyed her dream of inheriting the presidential throne when she slandered half of all conservatives as a “basket of deplorables” in the heat of the 2016 race. The Democrats still have not learnt their lesson, writes Houghtontweets
Analysis | Digital Editor Jack HoughtonHillary Clinton destroyed her dream of inheriting the presidential throne when she slandered half of all conservatives as a “basket of deplorables” in the heat of the 2016 race. Clinton still to this day has been incapable of understanding how damaging the gaffe was to her pursuit of dynastic power. Her only fault – as she puts it in her memoir What Happened – was trying to solve too many problems.
“Humiliation, in my view, is the most underestimated force in politics and international relations,” wrote. “The poverty of dignity explains so much more behaviour than the poverty of money. “By contrast, if you show people respect, if you affirm their dignity, it is amazing what they will let you say to them or ask of them.
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