The Left's Basket Full Of Intolerant Crazy Ass Unfuckables

[A Theist]

The coal mining industry jobs in areas around Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio has nose dived even more over the last 8 years of Barack Obama, and Hillary even commented about putting the miners out of work.

The thing about this is, the coal mining industry is going to end sooner or later, because either we're going to run out of coal, or people are finally going to become aware of just how much damage to the environment it does. Industries rise and fall; we don't have a chariot building industry anymore, the newspaper industry is collapsing at the moment, but I don't see politicians trying to do anything about that. There's a reason for that: the newspaper industry has been replaced by a better industry, online news. Coal mining is being replaced by better industries too, like solar, wind, nuclear, etc.

Clinton's comment about putting miners out of work, in context, is actually a positive thing:

So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.

Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.

Bolded the important part. Industries end, whether naturally or as a result of social / economic change. The important bit that politicians can do is ensure that those people in the industry left without jobs are supported.

For some to paint Trump supporters as only being racists, xenophobes, sexist nazis is narrow minded and naive.

I don't think anyone is painting them as "only" being racists, xenophobes, and sexist. The problem is they supported a candidate who has said things both openly and privately that are racist, xenophobic, and sexist. If you choose to support an asshole because you think he'll make your life better, that's absolutely fine, but you are still supporting an asshole, and no amount of reasoning is going to negate that.

I don't think the coal industry's done just yet with the election of Trump, hopefully. Other forms of energy sources, wind, solar, nuclear don't seem to be taking off very well. I'm sure that the technology for clean coal has much improved over the years.

Supporting an asshole is subjective. I guess I can be subjective and say that I didn't support the other asshole.