40% of the people in this country are deplorable

[Proud liberal 80]

And until the other 60% can admit that then things won’t ever change. We have been coddling that 40% since the beginning of the Republic and throughout.

[walkingman]

1. I blame a lot of this on religion and their blind support for ignorance and racism.

[Proud liberal 80]

3. It's the latter

They use religion as a “righteous” cover

[secondwind]

2. Not all of them are "deplorable", they are just misguided, and yes, religion plays a big part.

[Proud liberal 80]

5. Respectfully disagree

[Atticus]

7. WILLFULLY ignorant equals "misguided" and excuses none of their traitorous cruelty. And,

as for "religion", they should stop blaming God for the fact they are evil hypocrites.

If Jesus does come back, he'll kick their asses!

[Towlie]

15. Religion doesn't cause Trump support, nor does Trump support cause religion.

Rather they share a common cause and that cause is the tendency to accept and hold a belief in spite of a lack of evidence, or even an abundance of contrary evidence. It's called "gullibility" in politics and "faith" in religion.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Hillary gets proven CORRECT every day....

Her "basket of deplorables" comment has come to fruition. It was on display by those who spoke at the RNC .

[Atticus]

6. Did you know that one out of every three Trump supporters is

just as big an ignorant, mean-spirited racist as the other two?

[world wide wally]

8. I assume the Confederacy was about 40% of the nation as well

[Polybius]

9. How about the other 5%?

He's probably going to get 45% of the vote in November, because I can't see him losing by more than 10 points (probably 7-8). If 40% are deplorable, than the extra 5% probably don't like him that much, but are voting for him for other reasons.

[Proud liberal 80]

11. Different numbers

Don't mistake my 40% number
With 45% of the vote....that’s because some of the 60% don’t vote which drives up the share of the 40%

[Proud liberal 80]

10. Don't mistake my 40% number

With 45% of the vote....that’s because some of the 60% don’t vote which drives up the share of the 40%

[BannonsLiver]

12. It's probably closer to 45 percent.

[LeftInTX]

13. Today it's 48%

Approval rating

[ProfessorGAC]

16. 538 Aggregate Shows 42%

Who is showing approval at 48%?

[LeftInTX]

22. I read an article today

Can't remember the source..sorry
It was mainstream

[Towlie]

14. And 50% have I.Q.s below 100. Could there be some correlation?

[Doremus]

17. Saw a yard sign yesterday -- "Still deplorable, still voting for Trump"

They wear it like a badge of honor.


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[leftyladyfrommo]

21. STILL STUPID nt

[triron]

18. Hillary said it like it is.

[DeeNice]

20. She was only wrong about the percentage.

[nolabear]

19. And we will represent them. We will help them. We will include them.

Because we are NOT them. We have to be very careful about just hating and dismissing those people the way they do us. We can stop them from doing harm and we can support our own causes, but we must not be the exact thing they are, just on the other side.

[walkingman]

23. I honestly do try to find common cause but I find it impossible to accept the lack of empathy for

anyone other than their tribe or the simple mean spiritedness and nasty attitudes. I have tried long before Trump and have always failed. I cannot tolerate "holier-than-thou" people.....they simply do not interest me.

[JDC]

24. Deplorable is too kind