Democrats: Stop apologizing!

[Bayard]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton said that half of Trump supporters were a basket of deplorables. Right-wing anger ensued, and Clinton later apologized for stating the truth. Earlier, during the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama stated, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” He was right: That bitterness is what ultimately led to Donald Trump being elected in 2016. Candidate Obama apologized shortly after the remarks were made public, and the Clinton campaign jumped on them as derogatory—even though he was right, and was actually prescient about 2016.

Recent history is littered with Democrats apologizing for offending delicate Republican sensibilities. Tell the truth about Republicans, and they will whine and complain about it until the Democrat apologizes. It has become a game with Republicans. The conservative movement in this country has gotten so good at demanding apologies that it was able to get a report from the Department of Homeland Security on right-wing extremism (i.e., terrorism) pulled in 2009.

The report called this convergence of factors the “most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.”
Conservatives went ballistic.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/30/1867362/-Democrats-Stop-apologizing?detail=emaildkre

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Nothing is the same anymore and we are NEVER going back to the days of compromise.

Modern day republicans oppose our constitution, our rule of law and are racists and bigots.

I wouldn't apologize to a Nazi at a Nazi rally and I wont apologize for calling a republican what they are. Not all of them mind you but at this point there is no reason to differentiate.

[question everything]

2. Actually it started with many (here, at least) demanding Hillary apologizing

for supporting the Iraq war.

The war was supported by most Americans, we believed the WMD and were still under the 9/11 shock which, of course Hillary represented.

Sometimes I think that I hear sole powerful preacher demanding Repent! Repent!

[Duppers]

3. Bravo!

Exactly.

And when have we EVER heard a conservative apologize?

[Thekaspervote]

4. 2nd that!!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

7. Cons ever only give the non-apology:

"I'm sorry you took offense to my use of that phrase/slur/word/action."

[jayfish]

5. "And it's not surprising then they get bitter,...

...they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Remember those "ill-chosen" words? They were spot on when he said them and they are even more so now.

[malaise]

6. Anyone who supports those Concentration Camps

is a fucking DEPLORABLE - it's that simple.

Guards telling women to drink water from toilet bowls are fucking crimes against humanity. This is fucking torture. There is no other interpretation.