"You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?" she said to applause and laughter. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic --- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up."On Saturday, she clarified her comments, indicating that it's not really important whether the proportion of Trump's supporters who are "deplorable" is exactly half:
But let's be clear, what's really "deplorable" is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called "alt-right" movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values. It's deplorable that Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a national platform to hateful views and voices, including by retweeting fringe bigots with a few dozen followers and spreading their message to 11 million people. It's deplorable that he's attacked a federal judge for his "Mexican heritage," bullied a Gold Star family because of their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black President is not a true American. So I won't stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign.For the record, on both occasions she classified the remaining Trump supporters as hard-working Americans who just don't feel like the economy or our political system are working for them, and people with whom we must empathize. But for now, I'm focusing on the controversial part of her statement; that a large chunk of Trump's supporters are basically assholes.
There is data to back up this claim:
Now, everyone knows that your race doesn't determine your intelligence, work ethic, manners, or your tendency toward violence or lawlessness. And it's disappointing to see that even some Clinton supporters admit to harboring racist beliefs. But Trump's supporters are far and away the worst in this regard.
That's deplorable.
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