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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary Clinton was right: The parts of America that support Trump are stuck in the past [View all]
Last edited Thu Mar 15, 2018, 10:43 AM - Edit history (1)
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
03.15.20185:00 AM
Hillary Clinton has a problem. She tells impolitic truths at inopportune times. During the 2016 presidential campaign she described a large subset of Donald Trump's supporters as being "a basket of deplorables." She was correct. Donald Trump is an authoritarian petit-fascist who is also racist, ignorant, greedy and corrupt. He may be a traitor in cahoots with Russia, and is certainly a misogynist and serial liar who brags about sexually assaulting women. Anyone who would vote for such a person is in fact deplorable. Moreover, anyone who continues to support Donald Trump after witnessing his behavior as president is deplorable in the extreme.
Over the weekend while at a conference in India, Clinton let slip another truth about Trump's voters and the 2016 presidential election. Democrats, she said, "do not do well with white men, and we dont do well with married white women. And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should."
Republicans attacked Clinton's latest comments, of course, as an example of how the Democrats are supposedly "isolated," "elitist" and "out of touch." Some of her fellow Democrats piled on with complaints that Clinton is being "unhelpful" by "re-litigating" the 2016 presidential election instead of looking to the future.
These voices of protest have provided little if any evidence to disprove Hillary Clinton's central thesis. Why? Because the facts are on her side.
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Hillary Clinton was right: The parts of America that support Trump are stuck in the past [View all]
DonViejo
Mar 2018
OP
Rolling Stone talked about the issues with Bill Clinton not being the liberal they thought
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
#30
Part of the problem with Bill Clinton is the he was too in love with .. Bill Clinton.
Caliman73
Mar 2018
#54
If you want to see someone drunk on power and in love with himself look at Trump.
MrsCoffee
Mar 2018
#64
Hey Hermit, I must say that I look for your posts because of how & what you write.
Wwcd
Mar 2018
#87
Yup, we are just a bunch of unedumacated baboons out here in Wisconsin
Cuthbert Allgood
Mar 2018
#19
Correct...and any switch votes occurred because of Trump's toxic Presidency
BoneyardDem
Mar 2018
#84
Hillary's problem was/is the noise machine that dramatically overanalyzed her every comment
Freethinker65
Mar 2018
#8
Obama said much the same thing with the guns and religion comment...and it is true.
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#10
I don't think some get how much trouble we are in... I hope we can hang on until we take the house
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#72
It's worse than that -- "Things ain't what they used to be, and probably never was."
eppur_se_muova
Mar 2018
#14
Yes, lamb did what he had to in that district which is not reprrsentative of the country as a whol
JI7
Mar 2018
#51
George Lakoff said as much, before the election. Patriarchy is deeply, subtly embedded. nt
wiggs
Mar 2018
#18
Would Trump voters somehow vote for Democrats if she simply did not say it?
LanternWaste
Mar 2018
#27
+1. "She's a private citizen not running for anything, she can say what she wants"
dalton99a
Mar 2018
#43
She is honest, and tells the truth. I admire her for that. Too bad that those
lunamagica
Mar 2018
#66
Hillary's Comments Tend to Get to the Heart of the Matter - Thus the Endless Criticism
dlk
Mar 2018
#69
She was correct, and the Republicans got what they had been yapping about all through Obama's Admin
BoneyardDem
Mar 2018
#82
Never have understood why the term "elitist" is supposed to be an insult. I suppose those
patricia92243
Mar 2018
#89