Spare me the phony outrage over Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ remark - Greg Sargent, WaPo

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"The American people know what Trump is doing. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that American voters say by 59-36 that 'the way Trump talks appeals to bigotry.' " {that's 62%:38%_B USA}
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/10/spare-me-the-phony-outrage-over-clintons-basket-of-deplorables-remark/?utm_term=.8bd0cad254da

Let’s stipulate at the outset that this kind of generalization is not defensible. Clinton should not have described “half” of Trump’s supporters this way. People have all kinds of reasons for supporting their candidate — party loyalty; reflexive negative partisanship; genuine distaste with the alternatives; meaningful, legitimate support for certain aspects of the candidate’s agenda, and not others; and so forth.

A Clinton spokesperson qualified these remarks in a series of tweets, pointing out that Clinton was talking about Trump’s rally crowds, and noting that half of them appear to be alt-right types. But even so, Clinton doesn’t know what ultimately is motivating “half” of Trump’s rally attendees, and she should not claim to.

But if there is one group of people who should take their outrage about Clinton’s comments and stuff it in a very dark place, it’s Trump and his paid apologists, who unloaded in a series of tweets this morning. Trump’s campaign even put out a statement claiming that Clinton “revealed her true contempt for everyday Americans.”

Oh, please. Two things can be true at the same time: First, Clinton overgeneralized about what’s in the hearts and minds of Trump supporters. Second, her underlying characterization of the general nature of many of Trump’s campaign appeals — and her related observation that they really are successfully playing on the baser instincts of an untold number of Trump’s supporters — are 100 percent accurate.
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I wonder what percentage of Trump's statements in speeches fall into the "the frightening others" or "us versus them" categories? What is that percentage after you take out those statements which are lies about Clinton or Obama.. 90%?

Xenophobia is just about his whole campaign.

[demgrrrll]

2. There is nothing about this on my MSN feed. That tells me that right now no one wants to touch

this with a 20 foot pole. That all may change in the next few hours. Josh Marshall says hold firm. This article is supportive. Wait and see.

[B2G]

3. Nothing? What outlets do you follow?? nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. K&R

[uponit7771]

5. YES !! Clinton was right