From Max’s Dad:
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”
Basket of deplorables. The only two problems I have with that statement is she didnt make it 75% and the fact coughing Hillary, who is clearly dying, apologized to this bunch of creeps.
There is a good argument for her standing firm with not giving racists, sexists and homophobes any sanction nor quarter. They have been despicably tolerated on the GOP side for so long that they seem to have become that base–with an outer layer of people who were just okay or indifferent to that base existing, and voting GOP as if the intrinsic bigotry did not exist. If they were okay with it because they did not realize–it’s high past time they knew. If they didn’t agree but figured it was still socially acceptable–they need to get correct.