If she'd have left it at 'deplorables', she MIGHT have gotten through that day's news cycle ok....but then she went on to try to define it....lol...she will need that doc of hers to extract her foot
btw, was she sorry for?... saying it? or for meaning it? or that she only said 'half' and not 'most' or 'all'?
stupid as the comment was coming from her....reading the whole quote in context, I don't disagree with her...maybe not half, but a good %.....the 'irredeemable'...and 'not America' was a bit over the top, perhaps
"You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable. But thankfully they are not America.'
Clinton then went on to explain that the other basket of Trump supporters
"...are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."