Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ignited a scandal eight years ago when she wrote off a large portion of the nation as “deplorable” for their support of her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said at a fundraiser in September 2016. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Clinton later apologized, but the remarks defined an elite contempt for Trump’s supporters that would become an explicit staple of Democrat campaigns in 2022 and 2024.
As Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing arguments to voters from the National Mall Tuesday night, President Joe Biden called Trump’s supporters “garbage.”
“Donald Trump has no character,” Biden said, going on to reference a comedian who joked that Puerto Rico was an island of garbage at Trump’s weekend rally in Madison Square Garden.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said.
Kamala Harris should not be allowed an inch of space or a moment of peace until she is forced to state on the record whether she agrees with her boss Joe Biden that half the country is human garbage. pic.twitter.com/3jjUMZ7Fyh
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 30, 2024
Harris, meanwhile, fanned the flames of comparing Republicans to Nazis last week after The Atlantic’s latest hit piece painted
