Milbank: Hillary likely low-balled the number of deplorables

Posted by | September 14, 2016 20:09 | Filed under: Opinion Politics


That doesn’t mean she should have said it, just that she wasn’t wrong.

In June, the Pew Research Center found that 79 percent of Clinton voters believe the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities is an important issue, while only 42 percent of Trump supporters feel that way. As I wrote previously, earlier Pew research found that Trump supporters were significantly less likely than other Americans (and supporters of other Republican presidential candidates) to think that racial and ethnic diversity improves the United States.

Research by Washington Post pollsters and by University of California at Irvine political scientist Michael Tesler, among others, have found that Trump does best among Americans who express racial animus. Evidence indicates fear that white people are losing ground was the single greatest predictor of support for Trump — more, even, than economic anxiety.

Few people embrace the “racist” label, so let’s help them. If you are “very enthusiastic” about a candidate who has based his campaign on scapegoating immigrants, Latinos and African Americans, talked of banning Muslims from the country, hesitated to disown the Ku Klux Klan and employed anti-Semitic imagery — well, you might be a racist. But if you are holding your nose and supporting Trump only because you think him better than Clinton, that doesn’t put you in the basket.

 

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11 responses to Milbank: Hillary likely low-balled the number of deplorables

  1. Suzanne McFly September 14th, 2016 at 20:54

    Looks like all Hillary is guilty of is ripping the band-aid off.

    • granpa.usthai September 15th, 2016 at 10:07

      maybe the gopers can hold several multi-million US taxpayer dollar hearings on that one also?

      • Suzanne McFly September 15th, 2016 at 17:50

        Well we both know they will at least have a reason for one, but I feel secure that Hillary and the new Senate will not allow that.

  2. Obewon September 14th, 2016 at 21:05

    62% of Likely Voters agree, as does (R) Colin Powell confirms, Basket of Deplorables: Secretary of State Colin Powell’s private email account revealed the retired four-star general called Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump “a national disgrace and an international pariah.”

    In one of the emails, Powell calls Trump’s birther investigation a “racist” movement which incorrectly states that President Barack Obama was born in a foreign country. “Yup, the whole birther movement was racist,” Powell wrote. Commenting on Trump wanting to know if Obama was Muslim, Powell wrote, “As I have said before, ‘What if he was?’ Muslims are born as Americans everyday.” “The emails are accurate. No further comment at this time,” Peggy Cifrino, an aide to Powell, told CNN. http://www.alan.com/2016/09/14/colin-powell-called-donald-trump-international-pariah-in-leaked-emails/

  3. StoneyCurtisll September 14th, 2016 at 22:16

    Only Fifty percent?
    Come on Mrs; Clinton …
    You can do better, than that…
    Round it off to 75%, are losers, racist, xenophobes, misogynist, and Islamophobic..
    And there is that Narcissistic Personalty Disorder…
    Trump cannot pas a mirror with out kissing himself.

  4. William September 15th, 2016 at 01:14

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b6f4e475969685474b15c32bb425290021003c2721edf99e4604c70801e9e0bd.jpg

    • granpa.usthai September 15th, 2016 at 10:09

      good point.

      it’s impossible for me to believe that the orange COWARD would do anything but hide if they were to break their leash.

    • whatthe46 September 15th, 2016 at 10:16

      She looks possessed!

      • oldfart September 15th, 2016 at 10:21

        They ALL are.
        …and deplorable ! ;)

  5. granpa.usthai September 15th, 2016 at 10:04

    …and the dumbasses pick an orange COWARD to champion their cause?

    not even close to being smart.

  6. randy109 October 16th, 2016 at 13:03

    THIS IS FANTASTIC I CAN’T BELIEVE I FOUND THIS!!!
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    TRUMP WILL WIN..from WIKILEAKS
    Recent NASA satellites have been decrypted by Russian hackers intercepting weapons cache connected with ANOTHER DNC MEGA-SCANDAL with NUCLEAR CODES.
    This is going to bring the COMMUNIST democrats to their knees once and for all, those unpatriotic traitors really thought THEY pulled one over on us didn’t they?
    Well they’ve got a BIG surprise in store for them because TRUMP WILL WIN WHEN THIS INFO IS released and theirs nothing at ALL THE DEMOCRATS CAN DO ABOUT IT.
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    Never before has ANY INFO of this intensity been released on the media, there is JUST NO WAY libtards / commies can fight against this SHOCKING revelation to come.
    Julian Assange, a well-known and respected authority in conservative circles has now “made amends” for the blunder he gave us Oct. 5 because this is the MOST DAMAGING evidence against Obama and the entire Democrat Party and the Democratic Furors ALL GOING DOWN EVERY ONE OF THEM they don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell because TRUMP WILL WIN as soon as this info is released, but I don’t know when maybe next April or august or something, just wait a couple of months it’ll be around eventually.
    I have to go feed the cat, I haven’t done that yet..la, la, la…la…you just don’t “get it”, do you?

    “Communism will sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids”
    –From a Stanley Kubrick movie.

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