Durbin: Hillary Clinton 'is wrong' about Trump voters

[greatlaurel]

179. In HRC's speech at the India Today Conclave 2018. she did not use the word deplorable once.

You should take the time to actually listen or read Madame Secretary's speech and the question and answer session. The audience was appreciative about her opinions on protecting democracy around the world. The link to the video is just a few posts up.

Here is the quote from the 2016 campaign, just so you can read what she actually said then, as well. rather than using the right wing propaganda talking points. "“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.”

“Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said."

She did not condemn all Trump's supporters and was clearly sympathetic to the plight of the half of Trump's supporters who are not racist, sexist. homophobic, Islamaphobic. but said those people were desperate for change and needed understanding and empathy.

The half that are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic are, of course, truly deplorable and need to be called as such by everyone.