This Is Critical: Hillary Can't Back Down

[kpete]

Let me take a moment to address this "basket of deplorables" comment because I think it's critically important to get this right. Hillary Clinton has simply said what is the premise of most election coverage of the 2016 campaign: a big chunk of Trump supporters are haters. Racists, misogynists, people who are angry at the social and demographic changes in the country that most Americans see as progress. They want to stop it in its tracks and they want payback for what has happened already. To emphasize the point, this is not just what she and likely the great majority of her supporters believe. It has been the premise of most reporting on the campaign and validated by a vast cache of public opinion data confirming these points.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-is-critical-hillary-can-t-back-down

[riversedge]

1. She did not back down in her statement.

[exboyfil]

2. I know good people who support Trump

I don't think you ever benefit from criticizing the candidate's supporters in generality. Point out specific actions of supporters - yes especially those which are endorsed by the candidate or in which the supporter is part of the campaign.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Hillary's original comment did identify those to whom she was

referring to -

“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.”

“And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up,” she added.

Hillary regret's saying "half" of the pouty faces followers, - now the bounty of feigned indignation -

[roamer65]

7. +1000000

[Atticus]

6. No you don't.

If they support that bag of pus, they are either evil or ignorant. Neither is good.
There are no exceptions.

[backscatter712]

5. As Josh Marshall put it in previous years, to back down is to get "bitch-slapped".

She MUST not back down.

And yes, the bigoted white trash that forms Trump's base, aka the basket of deplorables, needs to be called out, and made to scuttle out of the light of day.

[Rex]

8. She has not backed down once, not over the decades.

A few more months? Not going to happen, she is going to make Trump look like jelly in the debates.

[napkinz]

9. not speaking out would have been DEPLORABLE ...

[kentuck]

11. Great quote!

Thanks!

[napkinz]

12. you're welcome kentuck

NOT calling out and condemning the racism and misogyny would be deplorable.

Thank you Hillary!

[gratuitous]

10. Suggested reply for Secretary Clinton

"Did I fucking stutter?"