Right Wingers Explode Over Clinton Calling ‘Half of Trump’s Supporters’ a ‘Basket of Deplorables’

The Anti-PC Crowd All of a Sudden Wants Clinton to be Politically Correct

Far right Republicans overnight grew increasingly incensed after Hillary Clinton shared her feelings about the extremists supporting Donald Trump with donors at an LGBT for Hillary fundraiser event that featured Barbra Streisand.

“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 told her supporters at the Manhattan event. The Washington Post reports her comments received “applause and laughter from the crowd.”

“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” Clinton specified. “And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

Clinton added that Trump has “given voice” to white supremacist and anti-Semitic voices online, according to the Post’s report.

“He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric,” the former secretary of state added. “Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”

Clinton also gave equal time to those she said are “people we have to understand and empathize with.”

“That other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change,” Clinton continued. “It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different.”

On social media, right wingers felt the need to defend Trump’s racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, or Islamophobic supporters, and the hashtag #BasketOfDeplorables took hold.

Right wing pundit Hugh Hewitt tried to compare Clinton’s remarks to Romney’s “47%” comments:

And gave Trump more advice:

Right wing Pollster Frank Luntz tried to tie Clinton’s remarks to Romney’s too:

RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer was only too happy to lie once again about Clinton’s comments:

Trump jumped in, of course:

A Breitbart writer: 

Anti-LGBT Christian extremist:

But voices on the left continued to hold the offended’s feet to the fire:

UPDATES:

Breaking: Clinton Regrets Saying ‘Half’ of Trump Supporters Are ‘Basket of Deplorables’

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