2016 Postmortem

Both were politically damaging depending on who you spoke to - I know a lot of people who felt threatened all year by Trump's rhetoric shouted an Amen when Hillary called it out..

Yes, there are despicable Americans who hate, who have inherited hate and resentment against other groups and scapegoat others for their failings. The only problem with her calling out the nonsense was the optics of it..

Romney's statement was a pejorative slight against the poor and unfortunate, and for no morally justified reason since being poor is is not a moral failing of the unfortunate - this is a sick and twisted conservative argument. However peddling and supporting racism and rampant xenophobia are moral failings - unless you're arguing that a poor person or someone on benefits is morally equivalent to a virulent racist thus the two can be lumped together if either group is critiqued- come on now.

you cannot possibly compare the two statements with a straight face. The only similarity was the political fall out..because all year the media pussy-footed around calling out Trump for his divisive nonsense.