For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them'. Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us'. But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.

Clinton frames partisan and cultural division as a recurring feature of American electoral politics—campaigns that win support by blaming an out‑group (“them”) rather than appealing to shared responsibility (“us”). The insistence that “there can be no ‘them’ in America” invokes a civic-national ideal: despite differences of class, race, region, or party, democratic legitimacy depends on recognizing opponents as fellow citizens within a single polity. The passage functions as a call to reject scapegoating and to re-center politics on common purpose and mutual obligation, a theme consistent with Clinton-era rhetoric about unity, inclusion, and pragmatic problem-solving over grievance-based mobilization.