What Is Hillary Clinton's Speech?

While casually watching HGTV at 11pm, my friend and I began chatting about the presidential election. Sitting in a quaint living room in Alaska, wrapped in blankets to save money so we didn’t have to turn on the heat, our conversation hit on all of the hot button issues of the cycle: Hillary Clinton’s veracity, Donald Trump’s penchant for lunacy and immoral behavior, Black Lives Matter, Obamacare, and more.

During the conversation, I, a Hillary Clinton supporter, and my friend, a Donald Trump supporter, listened intently to each other—and afterwards, we both changed our minds a bit. But, the question is this: Why did my friend and I not have these conversations during any of our phone calls, formal dinners, or other shared moments over the past year? Why did it take sitting on a couch in a musty living room after flying 4,270 miles from my current home in DC to (somewhat) communicate across difference?

In Washington D.C. political conversations are the bread and butter of any conversation. If you walk into any
As Emmet Rensin makes clear when talking about the Democratic Party’s shift to coastal elite liberalism, “The consequence was a shift in liberalism's intellectual center of gravity. A movement once fleshed out in union halls and little magazines shifted into universities and major press, from the center of the country to its cities and elite enclaves.” Of course, some of these voters abandoned the Democratic Party’s because of their progressive stances on issues like racism, but the current disillusioned voters are not them; they stuck with the party. In contrast, they are leaving because the party has moved farther away from these original trust-building spaces where mudslinging, tarnished overalls, and vocal disagreements reigned supreme over prim and proper debate etiquette, tailored suits, and who can more quickly cite the most recent Washington Post