Eight years later, my friend Hillary Clinton made a similar gaffe, also when speaking at a fund-raiser. Analyzing her campaign’s priorities in terms of targeting voters, she pointed out that not every voter was open to supporting her—an obvious truth. “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” Oops. She then went on to say that she felt the pain of other Trump
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