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“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” Moulton told the New York Times.

And then finally Trump himself seemed to go out of his way to offend people at every opportunity, including when he said that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not.”

"I don't want to offend anyone with the shape, but it was just to get their attention," he said.

“How do I offend anybody in there?”

They embraced risk and played to win big rather than striving not to offend and hoping to squeak by.