Columnists who make their living insulting people, like Cynthia Dill, could find themselves in a pickle when they realize that their tactics, though satisfying in their vindictive righteousness, could have the opposite effect to what they desire.

In Dill’s case, people who haven’t yet picked which of the two horrifying choices they’ll go with certainly won’t be swayed by someone who says that, should they have a conservative viewpoint, they have proved over and over that they are knuckleheads. As she should have learned after screaming in the faces of Bernie supporters at the Democratic caucus, bullying doesn’t change minds.

The one possible explanation for Dill’s continual haranguing of people who don’t like Hillary Clinton, since it doesn’t work as a political ploy, is that, as some have claimed, Donald Trump’s whole candidacy is a setup, paid for by the Clintons to make Hillary look better than she would if running against anyone else.

Dill may be a Trump plant to make people so incensed at the possibility of people like her coming to power, they’ll vote for anyone else.

John Nichols

Portland

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