One of the worst mistakes a politician can make is to come across as smug — dismissing or disrespecting voters.

The conventional wisdom holds that Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” line in 2016 and Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” remark in 2012 were fatal missteps.

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