flockofseagulls104 wrote:One of the main reasons Hillary lost is that she called half the electorate racist bigots to their face. People don't forget that.
Well, you've apparently forgotten what she said. She didn't call half the electorate racist bigots. She called half of Trump's supporters "deplorables," after prefacing it with the phrase, "to be grossly generalistic." Admittedly, that was a very unfortunate choice of words which she got lambasted for, but it's not calling half the electorate racist bigots (and since I doubt many of them were in the audience at the fundraiser where she was speaking, she didn't call them that to their face).
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?
The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — 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 how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.
Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both put their feet in their mouths a lot. The difference is that Trump gets much more of a free pass with people like Flock, who can't be bothered with trivialities like facts.