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What's wrong with HRC calling white supremacists and nationalists deplorable? (edit: I'll proudly take downvotes for calling a spade a spade.)

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Because she's trying to assign guilt by association. I'm sure most people that support white supremacy are, in fact, Trump supporters.

Does that logically make all Trump supporters white supremacists?

And what is wrong with a bit of Nationalism? I personally feel globalization has most been a clever campaign to allow large business to play wage arbitrage. The current division of wealth in the US supports my idea.

>Does that logically make all Trump supporters white supremacists?

She never said that all Trump supporters are white supremacists. Did you listen to the quote? She said half of Trump supporters were racists, homophobes, xenophobes, etc... If you look at the polling data, her comments were pretty well supported.

Agreed. But some of us would go a little further. When you see a crowd around a bully and a blowhard, you can be sure they are almost all weak and cowardly.

Do you gain a sense of self-importance from making baseless accusations about millions of people you know nothing about? If not, what is the purpose?

I only know about what I see of that guy, plus a knowledge of human nature. Just an observation. Been true since grade school, held true all my life. Why would it change now?

You don't know anything about the majority of the people you are insulting. It's childish to do that.

I know what they say when polled, and it makes HRC's characterization an understatement. See, e.g., https://thinkprogress.org/is-hillary-clinton-right-about-tru...

You said "weak and cowardly", which is not supported by anything in that link.

White nationalists support him more than any other Republican candidate and it's largely because he panders to them with thinly veiled or occasionally overt racism.

I think everyone who supports a Republican candidate supports Trump more than any other Republican candidate at the moment, seeing as how, y'know, the party picked him to represent them in this election. This doesn't prove anything?

Other than the fact that dozens of prominent Republicans have rejected him? Including former Republican Presidents of the United States... who have come out and said they will vote for HRC, and that they do so because they can't bring themselves to vote for a tyrannical monster?

Lol. Downvoting me doesn't change the fact that GWB and other prominent Republicans are choosing to vote for HRC over Trump. You can hit that down arrow all you want, facts are facts and I'm sorry they bother you so.

What does that say about your supposedly progressive candidate.

What a pathetic time to be a Democrat.

... It says that she's a better choice than the Republican candidate, even to the Republicans?

It takes some real mental gymnastics to take Republicans abandoning Trump as some sort of slight against Hillary. Lol, wow.

edit: nevermind, apparently you've just been on a trolling spree for the past hour.

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