Hillary Clinton Doubles Down on Infamous ‘Deplorables’ Comment, Says It Was ‘Too Kind a Word’
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Hillary Clinton has doubled down on her infamous “basket of deplorables,” eight years after she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.
In a Washington Post op-ed published on Wednesday adapted from her latest book, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, Clinton said that although it was a political mistake, the description does not go far enough to describe some of Trump’s most fervent supporters.
“In 2016, I famously described half of Trump’s supporters as ‘the basket of deplorables.’ I was talking about the people who are drawn to his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia — you name it. The people for whom his bigotry is a feature,
