It’s not exactly breaking news that Donald Trump thinks an awful lot of people are “losers,” but it’s worth reviewing just how many potential American voters he sees that way. David Corn provides the details:
During a June 2015 interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Trump declared:
The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don't have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry—and it's unfair to them—but cannot carry the other 50 percent.
Trump had expressed this view before. During a January 2015, interview with Kasie Hunt of MSNBC, he proclaimed, "We have a tremendous amount of people in this country that don't want to work. They have no inclination to work."
Trump’s campaign is focused on whipping up the resentments and insecurities of white people, so the easy out for his supporters—the thing they’re supposed to be hearing in this—is that he’s talking about someone else, someone with darker skin. But guys? When he talks about 50 percent of the country, or supports Mitt Romney’s 47 percent comments, he’s talking about some white people, too. People who he’ll play to for votes, even though he thinks they’re lazy, disgusting losers. Deplorable, even.