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Refuses To Defend Clinton’s “Deplorables" statements

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The consequences of Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ and Obama’s ‘clingers’






If you are a white, Christian, employed gun owner, it is fair for you to ask your Democratic representative or senator — or any Democratic candidate — if they consider you to be in the “basket of deplorables.” There is no doubt in my mind that when Hillary Clinton said “half of Trump’s supporters” could be put into the “basket of deplorables,” she was referencing the same group of people then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed in April 2008, while speaking at a San Francisco-area fundraiser, as “cling[ing] to guns or religion.” The Democratic contempt for what used to be salt of the earth, bedrock, middle-class citizens is a matter-of-fact part of today’s political equation. This may sound a little harsh, but it is the natural conclusion to draw after analyzing the Democrats’ campaign message over the past few campaign cycles.

According to the latest Post/ABC News poll, core Donald Trump supporters tend to be white Americans who have not graduated from college. And as the editorial board wrote in a piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Clinton’s comments really reflect what “today’s elite progressives believe about America’s great unwashed.” After her comments caught fire, Clinton tried to walk part of what she said back. She’s counting on the gullibility of the electorate to believe she didn’t mean what she said — a Clinton trademark.