Keyword: roxanneroberts https://freerepublic.com/tag/roxanneroberts/ en-us Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:50:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables' speech shocked voters five years ago - but some feel it was prescient https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3990714/posts Let's start with the obvious: "Basket of deplorables" is a weird turn of phrase. There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples. Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. There were two kinds of Donald Trump supporters, she explained: Voters who feel abandoned and desperate, who she placed in one metaphorical basket, and those she called "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic" - her "basket of deplorables." Trump - the same man who announced his candidacy... The Washington Post, via Yahoo News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3990714/posts#comment Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:50:01 GMT