Mr. Kempton lost me right off the bat when he said: "Before our benevolent government decided coal and steel were irredeemably bad for the environment ..." Sorry, Dan, it wasn't the government that decided that but science. I realize a lot of Trump voters don't believe in science, but the rest of us do and we like the fact that our government occasionally does the right thing in putting public health before local economics.

That aside, I don't think Daniel Kempton really is a "deplorable." The true deplorables are those who voted for Trump because they believe in him. Mr. Kempton seems to have voted for him more by default because he couldn't bring himself to vote for Clinton. That's an important distinction.

There are an awful lot of Trump voters who were really anti-Clinton voters, and the Democrats would be wise to learn from that. As for the Republicans, they'd be wise to pay heed to the fact that they have a president with no mandate, little love and a lot of mistrust.