And be clear: It is not the job of the defiant to conform to a future president who makes them completely uncomfortable. “Just wait and see.” “Give him a chance.” But what if what you’ve already seen is so beyond the pale that it’s irrevocable? What if Trump has already squandered more chances than most of us will ever have? At a fiery exchange during a panel at Harvard, Hillary Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, rightly accused the Trump campaign of emboldening “white supremacists and white nationalists.”The Trump campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, barked back: “Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Everybody has a way, it’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2016 08:22 UTC