Clinton even went so far as to label half of Trump's supporters as "deplorables....racist,sexist,homophobic..". You left out by far the worst part of that, she

Clinton even went so far as to label half of Trump's supporters as "deplorables....racist,sexist,homophobic..". You left out by far the worst part of that, she said we were "not America", that we were "irredeemable". Your devil's advocate offer doesn't strike me as relevant, you're trying to build some common ground or the like, right? Well, there's no common ground to be found when one side wholeheartedly believes you, and by you I mean in particular myself and my family, aren't even worth trying to reeducate, aren't even capable of that, are, to quote Merriam Webster "not able to be saved, helped, or made better" Just what future to you think we have in our opponents' Utopia? Anyway, near your close you say "This worries me greatly, as a very zealous proponent of free speech - I wouldn't want a significant contingent of voters, enough to sway a whole election, to feel like they cannot voice their opinions publicly, even if I disagree with them." Is it really true you believe this isn't already the case? If you habituate HN, did you fail to notice the strong calls to purge Peter Theil from Facebook's board and Y Combinator's partners? At the other end of the economic classes, all the violence and vandalism against Trump supporters, which thanks to Project Veritas we know was in part directed and paid for Clinton's campaign? That takes "contempt" to a higher (or is that lower?) level than your thorough citations of mere words.