- b.c.,
"An Inescapable Conclusion: They Really ARE Deplorable"
POST NO. 14,000
Back when Hillary Clinton called half of Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables," many of them, in spite of the evidence that follows, had the audacity to be insulted, and no doubt, some feigned insult for political expediency.
But, in spite of the fact that she was foolish enough to apologize for making her quite valid observation, the truth of the matter was, she was absolutely correct.
In fact an NBC opinion piece that ran in September 2016 took it one step further. In it the author made an argument similar to one I offered, back then, soon after the election. The argument being that a vote for Trump BECAUSE of his hate based bigoted divisive campaign was just as deplorable as a vote for Trump in SPITE of it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino...0-percent-trump-voters-are-deplorable-n646156
Opinion: Hillary is Wrong. 100 Percent of Trump Voters are Deplorable
Truth is, Trump's campaign was geared to appeal to the worst instincts and the most malevolent of motives among his constituency from the get. It was a deliberate appeal to the white victim hood narrative, whereby, accordingly, hoards of immigrants, Muslims, black people, gays, and anyone else not considered by him and his following to be "real" Americans, were the cause of their woes, taking their jobs, living on "the dole", and changing America into something foreign, and presumably abhorrent to all that they knew and believed in.
In Trump's and their "reality," Latino immigrants were criminals and rapists, a judge of Mexican heritage, not capable of fair and impartial judgment, Muslims, not to be trusted, his predecessor not American, and blacks (according to him) so woefully bad off as to have "nothing to lose" by the election of a hate mongering bigot who'd coddle white supremacists, racists, and neo-Nazis.
With regard to open endorsements by racists like David Duke, he offered only vague and lukewarm responses, like once claiming he didn't know who Duke was.
With regard to women, politicians and others, he responded with misogynistic references and mischaracterizations... calling one a nasty woman, mocking the Muslim mother of an American Iraq War veteran, saying of one, "...bleeding from the whatever," and ridiculing still another with mocking references to a Native American historical figure.
He roused his rabble with approvals of acts of violence, of how he'd like to punch someone in the mouth, and how he could shoot someone, and how his followers would riot.
In those and other ways, he fanned the flames of HATE and they LOVED HIM FOR IT.
It cannot be argued that they had none other to pick from. In fact they had a DOZEN, all more palatable, all LESS arrogantly hateful and divisive, and THEY deliberately and WILLINGLY chose THE WORST OF THE LOT.
Now, if one were to, for a moment, dismiss all of that, if one were given to playing "devil's advocate" (no pun intended) on MIGHT argue that PERHAPS of those who voted for this con man, not BECAUSE of the above but in SPITE of IT, they MAY have bought into the lies and deception of how he was one of THEM (he NEVER was), of how he was an outsider not of D.C. politics and their moneyed interests (though he'd always USED the system and the courts to shirk his obligations and get away with that which most of US would never get away with).
They MAY have bought into his promise to "drain the swamp" and "reduce their taxes" and "bring them jobs" and "repeal Obamacare" and all the other shit he promised them.
But in the wake of his two year occupancy of the Oval Office, he has replaced the so-called swamp with a cesspool of yes men, cronies, and wholly unqualified individuals whose jobs have been to undermine the agencies they've been put in charge of.
His cesspool of an administration, a continuous coming and going of administrators and appointees whose main failure was to do the complete and absolute bidding of the would be dictator in the WH.
Granted the jobs picture isn't a dismal as it might have been. There have been gains and losses. And yes, he's signed into law the bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative. Give credit where it's due.
But they haven't reduced taxes for anyone but the VERY rich, and they've successfully KILLED coverage for Medicaid subsidies and pre-existing conditions (because newsflash, Obamacare HAS been ruled unconstitutional), and Trump & Co. haven't replaced it with SQUAT.
POST NO. 14,000
But, in spite of the fact that she was foolish enough to apologize for making her quite valid observation, the truth of the matter was, she was absolutely correct.
In fact an NBC opinion piece that ran in September 2016 took it one step further. In it the author made an argument similar to one I offered, back then, soon after the election. The argument being that a vote for Trump BECAUSE of his hate based bigoted divisive campaign was just as deplorable as a vote for Trump in SPITE of it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino...0-percent-trump-voters-are-deplorable-n646156
Opinion: Hillary is Wrong. 100 Percent of Trump Voters are Deplorable
Truth is, Trump's campaign was geared to appeal to the worst instincts and the most malevolent of motives among his constituency from the get. It was a deliberate appeal to the white victim hood narrative, whereby, accordingly, hoards of immigrants, Muslims, black people, gays, and anyone else not considered by him and his following to be "real" Americans, were the cause of their woes, taking their jobs, living on "the dole", and changing America into something foreign, and presumably abhorrent to all that they knew and believed in.
In Trump's and their "reality," Latino immigrants were criminals and rapists, a judge of Mexican heritage, not capable of fair and impartial judgment, Muslims, not to be trusted, his predecessor not American, and blacks (according to him) so woefully bad off as to have "nothing to lose" by the election of a hate mongering bigot who'd coddle white supremacists, racists, and neo-Nazis.
With regard to open endorsements by racists like David Duke, he offered only vague and lukewarm responses, like once claiming he didn't know who Duke was.
With regard to women, politicians and others, he responded with misogynistic references and mischaracterizations... calling one a nasty woman, mocking the Muslim mother of an American Iraq War veteran, saying of one, "...bleeding from the whatever," and ridiculing still another with mocking references to a Native American historical figure.
He roused his rabble with approvals of acts of violence, of how he'd like to punch someone in the mouth, and how he could shoot someone, and how his followers would riot.
In those and other ways, he fanned the flames of HATE and they LOVED HIM FOR IT.
It cannot be argued that they had none other to pick from. In fact they had a DOZEN, all more palatable, all LESS arrogantly hateful and divisive, and THEY deliberately and WILLINGLY chose THE WORST OF THE LOT.
Now, if one were to, for a moment, dismiss all of that, if one were given to playing "devil's advocate" (no pun intended) on MIGHT argue that PERHAPS of those who voted for this con man, not BECAUSE of the above but in SPITE of IT, they MAY have bought into the lies and deception of how he was one of THEM (he NEVER was), of how he was an outsider not of D.C. politics and their moneyed interests (though he'd always USED the system and the courts to shirk his obligations and get away with that which most of US would never get away with).
They MAY have bought into his promise to "drain the swamp" and "reduce their taxes" and "bring them jobs" and "repeal Obamacare" and all the other shit he promised them.
But in the wake of his two year occupancy of the Oval Office, he has replaced the so-called swamp with a cesspool of yes men, cronies, and wholly unqualified individuals whose jobs have been to undermine the agencies they've been put in charge of.
His cesspool of an administration, a continuous coming and going of administrators and appointees whose main failure was to do the complete and absolute bidding of the would be dictator in the WH.
Granted the jobs picture isn't a dismal as it might have been. There have been gains and losses. And yes, he's signed into law the bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative. Give credit where it's due.
But they haven't reduced taxes for anyone but the VERY rich, and they've successfully KILLED coverage for Medicaid subsidies and pre-existing conditions (because newsflash, Obamacare HAS been ruled unconstitutional), and Trump & Co. haven't replaced it with SQUAT.
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