Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign is employing a decidedly different tactic than what President Joe Biden used when he ran against former President Donald Trump.Axios reports that while Biden's campaign presented Trump as a dire threat to the American republic, the Harris campaign has opted fo...
    • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      2 months ago

      Her quote never really felt that outrageous. She wasn’t even calling all Trump supporters “deplorable”. Here’s her quote

      “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.” “Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said.

      • mosiacmango
        21·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, as usual she was pretty astute. If she had her husbands charisma and wasent vilified unjustly for decades, the above would not have been turned against her.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      2 months ago

      Actually, she only used “the basket of deplorables” to reference the most extreme group, who could never be converted or made to listen to reason, and were therefore not worth wasting resources on or trying to appease. In contrast to generic Republicans who might not yet be part of the Trump Cult. It was her tiny push to the left against the “sell out everything you stand for in order to pick up votes” strategy, but it was seized upon, twisted into how you’re remembering it, and backfired against her.

    • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Two very good replies. I’ll add to them.

      No, she specifically called out the racist, sexist, anti-gay, anti-trans jerks that thought the only worthwhile people in this country were White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Males. The Media turned this truthful comment into a big hubbub and inflamed people against the comment, implanting the meme idea in your head that she was calling anyone who didn’t vote for her deplorable. Her mistake was running away from that comment when it became clear the ‘liberal’ (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha…) Press was going to hit her over it, rather than sticking up for herself and saying “I was clear that not every voter who votes against me is deplorable, but nevertheless, a large portion of Trump’s voter-base is the kind of person I’d call deplorable!”