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Or perhaps he's saying he was weary of of voting for SOSO, saw Clinton as that on steroids, and decided to take a chance on Trump while voting against a woman so STUPID she publicly referred to Americans as "a basket of deplorables." For smug jackasses who think themselves better than others and those who enjoy abuse, that moment must have been thrilling. I'm certain you enjoyed it.
Naw, I actually kind of felt bad for them. You see, I do kind of get why stupid white people vote for Trump. They realize that they've lost something good their parents and grandparents enjoyed, but they aren't quite smart enough to realize who stole it from them. (Psst. It was rich people!)
If you actually read her statement that included "Basket of Deplorables", you'd see that she was expressing sympathy for white working class folks who have seen their standard of living decline. That Trump was embracing the Deplorables (the open racists) that McCain and Romney wouldn't be seen with was what she was trying to point out.
Now they've become the face of your whole movement.
To use a Nazi Analogy, most Germans did not join the NSDAP. Many of them thought Hitler was a buffoon, but they thought they could get things they wanted out of him.
Woo ... that's some very sour grapes.
Sorry man, over the next 6 months we will employ the same system you consider to be flawed and - as we have for so many in the past - continue to do so for many more elections.
Allow me to suggest you find a country with a system more to your liking, pack your shit, and move.
Actually, no. With a new Recession, double digit unemployment and 60,000 dead from Trump's Plague, the flawed system will not make the same mistake again.
Trump is currently trailing Biden in WI, MI, PA, NC, AZ and FL. That's before the FULL PAIN of the recession is felt.
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
"But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
~ HRC