Let’s get straight to it: Hillary Clinton’s comments Friday at a fund-raiser that half of Donald Trump’s supporters could be put in a “basket of deplorables” wasn’t a smart political play. Here is Clinton’s full quote:“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”That second basket got too little attention. In June a Reuters/Ipsos poll found: “Nearly half of Trump’s supporters described African-Americans as more ‘violent’ than whites. I understand that people recoil at the notion that they are part of a pejorative basket.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2016 07:18 UTC