Obama went to San Fransisco and explained to a group of wealthy donors what middle class people in Pennsylvania are like.
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Lots of reaction.
I agree with this quote from John Hinderacker at PowerLine: "I don't see how anyone known to have uttered these words can be elected President."
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