Saturday, November 28, 2020

11-28 Half a country of “deplorable”

I’m no fan of Hillary Clinton, but I must confess that her choice of the term “deplorable” to qualify Trump supporters in 2016 was right on the money. 

That cost her some votes, because Trump knew how to turn the expression against her, but it remains clear that “deplorable” meant what it said: 

  • Causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable. 
  • Also causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad. 

The bad news is that if 80 million Americans voted for Joe Biden, almost 74 millions “deplorable” fellows voted for Trump. 

This means that Democrats may have won, but American is split in half with a considerable half made of either idiot, gullible, malevolent individuals or a combination of these three flaws.

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