Hillary was wrong to say half of Trump’s supporters are deplorable:
The dust-up began Friday, when Clinton responded to a question about Trump by saying, “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’ The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophpobic, you name it,” she said. “Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
She was wrong. She was grossly inaccurate. I believe it's true to say that more than 75% of Trump’s supporters are deplorable. I’ll accept that a quarter of them are either senile or mentally ill at a level that it removes from them enough of the personal responsibility for supporting a racist like Trump that it's not quite right to say they're deplorable.
But the other 75% fit into the categories she outlined as well as Dominionists and Wall Street nihilists. And having grown up in a solid red state, I have zero hesitancy in asserting that as 100% true. Seventy five percent, not 50%. Hillary was wrong.
She was being far too kind to Trump’s supporters.