Donald Trump has decided to go after Hillary Clinton’s "basket of deplorables" comment in a new ad that’s going to run in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania … and the only message one can take away from this ad is, what in the hell was he thinking?
It opens with a (scary-voiced) narrator saying that “Hillary Clinton called tens of millions of Americans ‘deplorable,’” and then shows the video of Clinton saying:
You know, to just 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, Islamophobic—you name it.
… and then the narrator immediately returns with “People like you, you and you” as images of Trump supporters flash across the screen, concluding with “Hillary Clinton is demonizing hard working people like you.” Or as those in Republican circles call it, white people.
So kudos to Donald Trump for owning that he’s the exalted leader of the racists and bigots.
The ad can be viewed below the fold. Head down and see what you think.