DOUBLING DOWN ON 'DEPLORABLES': Hillary Addresses Infamous 2016 Comment, 'Too Kind a Word'

Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton revisited her infamous 2016 “basket of deplorables” comment in a Washington Post op-ed this week. While Clinton acknowledged that it was a political misstep, Hillary doubled down on the descriptor, even adding that it didn’t go far enough.

The op-ed was adapted from her new memoir Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty.

“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, not a bug,” Clinton wrote.

“It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters,” she continued.

Clinton also addressed past remarks when she said Trump supporters are “irredeemable.”

“Talking about the ‘deplorables’ in 2016, I said, ‘Some of those folks, they are irredeemable.’ Part of me would still say this is objectively true. Just look at the lack of remorse from many of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who’ve been convicted of sedition and other crimes,” she wrote. “But another part of me wants to believe something else. I’d like to believe there’s goodness in everyone and a chance at redemption, no matter how remote.”

Recently, Clinton called Donald Trump a danger to the country and the world; she made the comment shortly after the second assassination attempt on his life.

Understand what Hillary Clinton is doing here. She is openly calling on Democrats to try and off Trump again. https://t.co/cp3MXAE6Ha

— 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 (@Travis_4_Trump) September 17, 2024

[h/t Breitbart News]

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