About the ‘Basket of Deplorables’
.. Then, she continued: “But the other basket — and I know this 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 are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down
.. That second basket got too little attention. Context doesn’t provide the sizzle on which shock media subsists. Noted.
.. You can’t conveniently separate yourself from the detestable part of him because you sense in him the promise of cultural or economic advantage.
.. if you place ideological adherence or economic self interest above the moral imperative to condemn and denounce a demagogue, then you are deplorable.