Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders did something that many liberals would have probably considered a waste of time, holding a town hall-style meeting in a coal mining county in West Virginia that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. During the meeting one Trump voter expressed support for universal health care, and said he voted for the president “solely because he said he was going to help us, he was going to put the coal miners back to work, and we’re going to have health care and this and that.” Rather than disparaging this man as an ignorant hick — the natural impulse for many liberals in this situation — Sanders respectfully informed him and the audience that Trumpcare would throw millions of people off their health insurance while giving the wealthiest Americans a massive tax cut. By the end of the town hall, Sanders had seemingly won over the entire crowd.

As Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues continue to screw over poor and working-class people in the days and months ahead, Democrats will have a perfect opportunity to expose the president as the fraud that he has always been and reclaim the “party of the people” title. Cheering as people lose their health insurance may not be the best way to go about this.

-Conor Lynch from "Salon"