An election lesson not learned

Washington Times ^ | October 30, 2018 | Anthony Scaramucci

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On Sept. 10, 2016, at a fund raiser in New York, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton infamously called half of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.”

I’m sure you remember the moment. In a very real sense, Hillary lost the election that day.

The Trump campaign seized the opportunity. Mr. Trump had been behind in the polls but had started to make up ground. He needed an opening to pull even and eventually overcome the poll numbers. Hillary handed it to him on a platter. Donald Trump then hijacked the Democratic base.

Many of those deplorables, as Hillary called them, were actually hard-working “blue collar” voters who had been forgotten by the elites of the Democratic Party. Hillary was so wrong about them because her party had stopped

[Liz]

Hillary's "deplorables" comment was not a throwaway line. It was a calculated and planned line. She used it at least twice.
Her "superior" campaign team actually thought about it, scripted it, then rolled it out as a campaign strategy.

Thanks for pointing that out.