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>and in fact made it a point to openly despise these voters publicly by calling them deplorable. Nope. Hillary Clinton was specifically calling out the racists
by krapp 2y ago
>and in fact made it a point to openly despise these voters publicly by calling them deplorable.
Nope. Hillary Clinton was specifically calling out the racists and bigots within the Trump camp, not all Trump supporters. Which is obvious to anyone who bothers to read the actual quote. It isn't complex or nuanced, or even that long.
And I don't know why Trump supporters still insist on believing otherwise, since one would expect that they would want to distance themselves from the bad elements within their party. I can only assume they find solidarity with such elements to be more important than conceding that a Democrat might actually have a point.
Ah well. You sleep with the pigs, you wake up smelling like shit.
- TheBlight 2y agoThat part of my comment was probably the least interesting but for the record, her exact words were that half of his supporters were deplorable.
- rootusrootus 2y agoShe did say half, which may be an overestimate, but she then provided a description. The rest of the supporters gleefully adopting the label, knowing the definition, is ... interesting.
- krapp 2y agoIt's hyperbole, and not mathematically accurate, but not entirely wrong. That white supremacists flocked to Trumpism like a moth to a flame is a well documented phenomenon, and the preference of Trump supporters to prefer to blame the messenger is telling.