Hillary Finally Speaks the Truth

Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney have something in common: they both dismissed a sizable portion of Americans during their race for the White House. For Romney, it was the 47 percent who “are dependent upon government.” You remember don’t you? It was all you heard about throughout the final months of 2012, and jabbering heads everywhere agreed the comment may have cost him the 2012 election.

Clinton’s dismissal, far more laced with invective than Romney’s, is focused on “half” of Trump’s supporters who she called “a basket of deplorables” during a Friday night tirade.

Americans are tired of the Hillary Clintons and Mitt Romneys of the world—the political elites who look down from their towers with contempt at all those tiny, ignorant ants they mean to govern.

I bet she wishes she could Bleachbit that comment.

In a bungled, Clintonian, non-apology apology, she didn’t express regret over hatefully smearing a vast swath of Americans, but only the the fraction of Trump supporters she chose to impugn. Working people have grown used to this sort of cynical political word-smithing and top down hatred that often flows from powerful, ivy-league educated millionaires to the managing-to-squeak-by working class person. That sort of snobbery fueled the rise of Donald Trump.

So, who exactly are the deplorables? According to a recent NBC poll, 55 percent of soldiers and veterans support Trump. Are they the deplorables? Christians overwhelmingly support Trump. Are they the deplorables? People without college degrees support Trump. Are they the deplorables?

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When a Clinton calls you deplorable, it’s like Brian Williams calling you an exaggerator or Anthony Weiner calling you a pervert; it’s so overflowing with tu quoque that all you can do is laugh. I don’t know every single American Clinton was referring to, but I know that when it comes to deplorable, the Clintons are in a basket of their own.

“You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” This from the woman who is seen as honest and trustworthy by 11 percent of Americans according to an August NBC poll. For perspective, that’s the same percentage of Americans who believe the moon landing was definitely fake or aren’t sure. According to a VoucherCloud.net study that the LATimes published in 2014, 11 percent of Americans think that (insert drumroll here) HTML is a sexually transmitted disease.

Whitewater, filegate, travelgate, lying under oath, obstruction of justice, pardongate, sex scandal after sex scandal, orgy island, Benghazi, servergate, foundationgate. An American history of the Clintons is nothing but scandals followed by indignant claims of innocence. The sort of claims that wag a finger back at the accuser and say, “shame on you for even suggesting such a thing.” From “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” to “I did not send classified material” the Clintons have shown the ability to lie to millions of people about matters of national security without compunction.

To this day, every time Hillary Clinton has the guts to face a real reporter she’s forced to add to her ever-growing Pinocchio count. Shame would prevent most human beings from being able to tell the same lie over and over after it’s already been exposed by the director of the FBI as a lie, but it doesn’t seem to bother Hillary Clinton in the least.

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In 2012, Paul Krugman of the New York Times was outraged at Romney’s “disdain for workers.” He wrote that the comment was, “a window into the true attitudes of what has become a party of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy, a party that considers the rest of us unworthy of even a pretense of respect.”

Joe Scarborough called Romney’s 47 percent comments “twisted.”

I hope the Paul Krugmans and Joe Scarboroughs of the world will be just as outraged with Clinton’s condemnation of Americans as they were with Romney’s. But the media outrage will likely fizzle out quick. After all, as far as most of the mainstream media is concerned, she was simply stating a fact. Election day is in November, there are 50 states, and Trump supporters are deplorables.

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What happened to civil disagreement? What happened to those back-in-the-day liberals who used to say, “I don’t like what you say, but I’d die for your right to say it?” Now, in 2016, if you disagree with Hillary Clinton you’re a deplorable?

The most shocking part of all this is that the career, establishment politician with decades of experience managed to utter the most condescending, hateful, divisive words of this entire campaign.

It would be unacceptable for any candidate for any office to call so many Americans “a basket of deplorables,” but it’s especially insulting coming from one of the rankest, most deplorable politicians of modern times.

This is why the American political pendulum swung so furiously toward populism in 2016 that even a so-called outsider like Ted Cruz lost his grip on it. Americans are tired of the Hillary Clintons and Mitt Romneys of the world—the political elites who look down from their towers with contempt at all those tiny, ignorant ants they mean to govern.

Hard-working Americans aren’t deplorable, Secretary Clinton, you are.