Trump Pokes Iran

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SpokenTruth said:

Jon-Erich said:

Actually, I do believe that. Do you have any idea who many of these voters were? A lot of them were blue collar pro-union democrats from the rustbelt who don't strictly vote democrat or republican. They might have voted for Reagan in the 80s but then voted for Bill Clinton in the 90s. They typically vote for whoever caters to them and throughout the election cycle, Trump focused a lot more of his time on these people while Hillary Clinton spent most of her time campaigning to elitist democrats. There is a reason why Donald Trump ended up winning a bunch of states that Obama had won in 2012. Hillary Clinton openly insulted these people which is one of the most idiotic things I've seen a major presidential candidate do in my lifetime. Not only is it a stupid idea to insult half of the voting population, but it also made her look bad in eyes of many independent voters who hand't decided who they wanted to vote for. I guess getting caught cheating also didn't win her a lot of support either.

Let me make sure I got this straight.

Clinton said, "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?”

So these swing voters somehow felt that "half of Trump's supporters" meant them?  If they aren't a Trump supporter, how can it mean them?  If they are a Trump supporter, why assume they are the half that is deplorable?  And how would a Trump supporter suddenly no longer want to vote for Clinton if they were already a Trump supporter?

Further, Trump supporters love to call Democrats and SJWs, etc...snowflakes.  Yet deciding your presidential support for the next 4 years because someone called half of a candidate's voters deplorable is the most snowflake thing ever.

Did she fail to campaign strongly in rural America?  Yes, she did.  Did calling half of Trump's supporters deplorable cause those who would have voted for her to vote for Trump?  No.

Maybe she should have pulled a Trump and said, "What I meant to say was basket of 'adorables'.

You can deny all you want, but the deplorables comment was her Romney comment about those who don't pay taxes. It hurt her.

Comments she also did about shutting down the coal industry and so on also did not win her any votes.

Snowflakes is also not an exclusive term for the right to call the left. The left use it just as much as the right.