Brookings Institution’s Hamid: We Have To Find a Way To Live with 74 Million Trump Voters that Are ‘a Threat to Everything We Hold Dear’

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HAMID: “So, you’re right that it’s a universal thing, and we can talk about Europe has its own cases where in Italy we might have the first far-right prime minister since Mussolini and that person will have come to power through elections, or the Sweden Democrats, the party with neo-Nazi origins. So, it’s not just America, it’s happening all over the place because we’re not debating economic issues anymore, we’re debating cultural issues, identity issues, issues around religion. So, I think we have to accept that people who we completely disagree with are sometimes going to win, so there’s, what, 74 million Trump supporters, voters? We can’t just wish them away. They’re not going to disappear. So then we have to find a way to live with them even if we think they’re bad people, even if we think they're a threat to everything we hold dear, because what is the other option that’s in front of us? That’s the challenge, because a lot of people will say, 'Well, they’re deplorable and we can’t find a way to live with them.'"