Well this is some extreme brutal honesty from Hillary Clinton at an LGBT fundraiser just before she brought Barbara Steisand to the stage.
New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton told an audience of donors Friday night that half of Donald Trump's supporters fall into "the basket of deplorables," meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic. In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them.
"To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it." She added, "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."I’ve been watching the Trumpeteer brigade go into overdrive to counter-attack saying it’s just shocking, Shocking, for Hillary Clinton to stoop to verbally attacking American Voters like this. I mean it’s not like she already gave a long, detailed, fact filled speech of Trump’s own repeated dives into bigoted waters, now she has to actually attack his supporters too?
Well, yes, of course she does because the fact is that she actually didn’t call Trump racist, but actually said that he panders too racists, it’s only naturally that at some point she address those racists specifically and also those who aren’t racist or bigoted at all and who have their own economic reasons for being in support of a pyrite peddler like The Donald.
I mean c’mon, this is a candidate whose been openly endorsed by every racist, neo-nazi, KKK bigot from former Grand Wizard David Duke to the guy who was nearly a member of his California delegation. And somehow it’s supposed to be over the pale for Clinton to bring things like this up?