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Failed 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has chosen to quadruple down on her “deplorables” comment from 2016.
Recall that Clinton inspired massive backlash at the time by referring to supporters of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “basket of deplorables.”
Yet in a new op-ed for America’s most leftist mainstream paper, the Washington Post, she doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on this nasty, intolerant sentiment.
“In 2016, I famously described half of Trump’s supporters as ‘the basket of deplorables,’” she wrote. “I was talking about the people who are drawn to his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia — you name it. The people for whom his bigotry is a feature, not a bug.”
“It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters,” she added.
Keep in mind this column comes after TWO attempted assassination attempts on former President Trump, a Republican, both by assailants who previously donated to Democrats just like Clinton.
Responding to Clinton’s column, critics were quick to write that she’s the truly deplorable one:
@HillaryClinton is a deplorable.
— Rene Weese (@ReneWeese) September 26, 2024
@HillaryClinton a Democrat elite who thinks she is clearly above other US citizens….she is truly deplorable!
— GEO.P (@WhydaInsanity24) September 26, 2024
@HillaryClinton must be a deplorable because she is VERY unkind. Ask anyone who has dealt with her. Shit just ask SS that has dealt with her
— Foxdude (@foxduude) September 26, 2024
You know who is deplorable? Hillary Clinton. Just always remember @HillaryClinton – you got smoked by Trump and you blamed everyone but your corrupt self.
— Girldad08 (@Rap40D) September 26, 2024
@HillaryClinton I am a proud @realDonaldTrump supporter and a far cry from deplorable, having served in uniform for 28 years defending this great country, #SeeYouNextTuesday.
— George Dove (@GeorgeDove15) September 26, 2024
In fairness to Clinton, not that she’d ever be equally fair to Republicans, the ostensible point of her column was to promote empathy.
Indeed, the central topic of the column was her discussions with Shannon Foley, a former white supremacist who uses empathy to “deprogram” those who still subscribe to that ideology.
And, in fact, Clinton ended her column by sort of, kind of urging empathy for those “deplorable” Trump supporters.
“Empathy for people you agree with is easy,” she wrote. “Empathy for someone you deeply, passionately disagree with is hard but necessary. What Shannon does, feeling empathy for Nazis and Klansmen is damn near superhuman. As a Christian, I aspire to this kind of radical empathy but often fall short.”
“Talking about the ‘deplorables’ in 2016, I said, ‘Some of those folks, they are irredeemable.’ Part of me would still say this is objectively true. Just look at the lack of remorse from many of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who’ve been convicted of sedition and other crimes. But another part of me wants to believe something else. I’d like to believe there’s goodness in everyone and a chance at redemption, no matter how remote,” she added.
That said, critics weren’t impressed with her spiel about empathy either, especially given her notorious treatment of Secret Service agents, among other things.
Look:
Here’s a start. Stop referring to half the country as nazis and domestic terrorists. Also GFY
— Mild Mannered Maniac (@80sGeek) September 25, 2024
Where was her “empathy” for the children in Hati and her dozens of associates that supposedly committed su!c!de?
— NotWokeAWAKE (@Awakeartistk) September 26, 2024
She just advocated for reprogramming people who don’t agree with her. Not exactly a come together message.
— Muad’Dib (@paulatreides99) September 25, 2024
Stand together? You say that “deplorables” is too nice for Trump supporters, then act like you want to unite ppl! You also have no issue with men in dresses dancing in stripper poles for innocent children, men in women’s bathrooms/locker rooms, or pummeling them in sports!
— Joann B (@JoannB59559120) September 26, 2024
The woman in charge of attempting to destroy female characters in managing her husband’s ‘bimbo eruptions,’ and the woman who found humor in the not guilty verdict she got for a client who’d raped a 12-year-old girl, talks about ’empathy,’ eh.https://t.co/OPbnMvok6S
— m doug allen (@msluggoallen) September 25, 2024
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