To those who say 'deplorable' was too mean: you were wrong.

[kpete]

[TSExile]

1. Of course!!

To them, kindness = weakness.

[Ponietz]

2. Despicable is better

[Moostache]

3. I prefer things not polite to utter aloud.

These people supporting Trump against all evidence and examples of his criminality, incompetence and maleficence are astounding to me.

Some are obvious shills (Fox News et. al.) doing it for $$$.
Some are agitators intentionally trying to get a rise out of people...

But there are those who simply refuse to use their eyes to see, their ears to hear or their minds to comprehend...those people are frightening beyond words.

[Snackshack]

4. She could have said

Traitorous murders and it would have been right no target.

I understand she went with something kind of neutral and PC but she could have cut loose and it would have been very refreshing to hear it.

[lpbk2713]

5. What's wrong with this picture?

[Major Nikon]

6. The only thing HRC got wrong was saying it was half of them

[LisaM]

7. She also didn't actually call anyone that.

The difference is apparently too nuanced for those blockheads to parse, but what she really said was that people who were racist and sexist and homophobic belonged in a basket of deplorables.

Newsflash: if you aren't any of those things, she didn't mean you.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Simeon Salus]

9. They report! You decide!

It's a long tail phrase...

[rubbersole]

10. Unfair and unbalanced.

Maybe the most divisive force in America history.

[Simeon Salus]

11. Twas ever so

100% right.

[LT Barclay]

12. They picked it up as a badge of honor anyway.

I wish Lewis Black would come up with an insult for Trump supporters that is so revolting that they would never dare use it on t-shirts

[Evolve Dammit]

13. H was way too kind and they freaked anyhow. Bat-shit crazy cultists may have been better?

[Solly Mack]

14. Deplorable was being kind. Too kind.

[raging moderate]

15. The word "deplorable" suggests a desire to weep over these people.

It is from the French word for weeping. It suggests that you value them enough to worry about them. Hillary Clinton was right about this, as she was about so many other things.