It's really quite difficult to not be demeaning because the core of the problem is bigotry across the political spectrum, making significant unequal decisions about individuals based on shallow characteristics (appearance, ethnicity, gender expression). And you can't really have a discussion about it because nobody will accept that making decisions based on a person's race/gender/... is discrimination regardless of which group gets the positive benefit. And you can't really have a discussion about it because "yeah but what the other guys did or are still doing is way worse".
Bottom line: to succeed in the 21st century you have to weigh pros and cons and live in the grey area. This is an optimization problem not a battle between good and evil. Viewing the world exclusively through the "good vs evil" lens is going to lead to a civilization threatening war.
Hillary’s “deplorables” thing was maybe the most prominent example. Her point was that democrats who think that all republicans are committed to evil positions we can’t compromise with or entertain isn’t correct! Only about a third of them are, according to the data. The rest could maybe be reached or worked-with!
This is true shit you say in blunt terms in a strategy meeting or nerdy discussion groups, not in public, because poli sci is just full of demeaning stuff about voters, because they are stupid and often evil and if you study democracy soberly that’s what you’ll find, and you have to grapple with it to act effectively, but you don’t say it in public because most voters also don’t know that stuff because they’re not poli sci nerds. She, and/or her speech writers, had been around strategists and wonks too much.
[edit] on the other hand, one wonders how much this really matters when Trump wins while saying worse things about all kinds of folks. The way the media approach and characterize and amplify (or don’t) the messages may matter more than what’s actually said.
They voted for Trump, twice. They love it when politicians are insulting.
Now what American would ever think that?...
For years we have been listening "fuck your feelings" coming from the right.
The only reference I can find before Trump is the lil Wayne song that came out in 2014:
https://genius.com/Lil-wayne-fuck-yo-feelings-lyrics
Before that nothing:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=F...
The internet is filled with pictures of Trump supporters wearing flags that say "Fuck your feelings" though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owning_the_libs
So I'm wondering what evidence you've come across that this phrase came from the left.
What you're saying here is "we're better than everyone else and everyone else disagrees with my positions because they envy how awesome we are".