it was not a well thought out thing to say. It just serves to fire up Trump's base.

I actually think it was smart. Anyone offended by it wasn't voting for her anyway. Everyone else knows she is right.

Anything fires up Trump's base. She could sip a cup of coffee and the half-wits and dullards would get fired up and outraged over it.

It served her well, and it serves her campaign well.

when the media called her out on it?

Try and keep up!

extremely carefully thought out. HRC and her advisers may have spent weeks before deciding as the time arrived that "basket of deplorables" would best strike the note they wanted. And success!! It immediately became a meme, repeated everywhere, and the subject of untold number of discussions that will continue right up through election day.

And, of course, Trump's fired-up base burns a little hotter. That's fine.

Because it's focused the attention of the nation on them. Not on all conservatives, on Trump's deplorables.

Trump's economic supporters who just want "change" have been given recognition of what they genuinely care about, recognition that they are not bigots, and recognition that they do not belong with these others.

Wobblers will find it harder to wobble to Trump with the spotlight on the deplorables.

And also, in our party, HRC has pleased the many millions they've behaved deplorably toward by denouncing those in that basket of deplorables. We really need to, after all.

Good job, Our Guys!

She had said something similar in an interview on Israeli TV a couple days earlier. Also coincided with a new TV ad that starts off with Senator Lindsey Graham calling Trump a race baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot, and a new ad from Priorities USA (who she's not supposed to coordinate with wink wink) contrasting Reagan with Trump rhetoric and Trump supporters attacking protesters.

and "Mexican rapists" and some Republican governor HIMSELF saying it's about "the deplorables" and those he refers to as Trump's "dupes" needing pity, apparently the other half, as he tries to attack Hillary for supposedly insulting them all.

At the bottom of the screen is "Pence on whether Duke is "deplorable": "I'm not in the name-calling business."

LOL.

It was a brilliant move, because it forces Trump's campaign either to own or to reject their deplorable base, and they can be explicitly called out for it. Witness Pence's response when asked about David Duke, for instance.

Clinton's "deplorables" comment was brilliant and well planned.

Good luck!

It makes it worse, actually. Separating out different groups - real Americans and those who are deplorable is extremely ugly rhetoric. It's exactly the same rhetorical MO as nationalistic politicians just with different tar

As far as I'm concerned. Republicans can have nationalistic and hyperpatriotic rhetoric all to themselves.

I think so. It makes it easier, actually. It allows one to better see the difference between the chaff and wheat of the GOP base. I didn't infer, nor did I see implied a reference to "real" Americans, merely contrasting the differences between Trump's two largest blocs.

She didn't randomly call some people "unworthy"- that was Donald. Interesting you left out her very specific definition of who is delorable. Sympathy for those Devils?

The tactic of calling the targets of hate roaches as a way of turning people against their own citizens is no different from using the deplorable for the same purpose. No matter the target the agenda is "let's you and him fight on my behalf."

Honestly there are lots of people with blinders on at those rallies and there is finally a national conversation about what is going on. No one has "to fight" these people, they only have to decide if they want to continue to stand next to those assholes. And to support Teumps divisive rhetoric.

Hillary finally called it, and I'm very proud. It means a lot to women and POC.

Carving out groups dilutes the message. Targeting rhetoric rather than people carries more meaning, anyway.

They are a tiny but intimidating bunch. Hate everyone pretending they're maybe not facial racist sexist pigs

I can't believe she is being hounded for not coming out and declaring she had pneumonia like it is the new Benghazi. They have spent far more time on her temporary condition them Trump's tax returns, his doctor's report, his crooked foundation or his racism combined.
FTMSM

as did the venom spitting Trump's hissy fit over it.

Anything that makes that thin skinned man child lose his cool is a good thing. Besides, sensible people agree with it.