Hillary Clinton may have been unwise to say half of Donald Trump’s supporters are racists and other “deplorables.” But she wasn’t wrong. How dare she, Trump said, “attack, slander, smear, demean these wonderful, amazing people.”But this isn’t a matter of gratuitous name-calling. It came out of hiding in opposition to the first African American president, and it has been welcomed into the open by Trump. As I wrote previously, earlier Pew research found that Trump supporters were significantly less likely than other Americans (and supporters of other Republican presidential candidates) to think that racial and ethnic diversity improves the United States. The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the two groups roughly equal: Forty-six percent of Trump supporters say they are “very enthusiastic” about his candidacy.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2016 23:44 UTC