This is deja vu all over again.
Obama (2008): ““They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”Hillary (2016): “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. Some of those folks – they are irredeemable.”Biden (2024): “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
I think I’m beginning to sense a pattern.
Transcript (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcription clarity)
Many people say, when somebody says something nasty, “Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?”Well, we just found out how Joe Biden, the president of the United States, feels about Trump supporters; he called them garbage.The media and the White House are trying to wordsmith it, inserting apostrophes, but we have the recording, and we know what he said, the tone of his voice—there was no apostrophe there. He said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is Trump’s supporters.”We know that’s how he feels; he told us how he really feels.There is a long history of top Democrats making derogatory statements about Republican, Trump, or Tea Party voters.Remember Obama in 2008 at a closed fundraiser talking about how his opponents get bitter, cling to guns or religion, or hate people who aren’t like them, anti-immigrant sentiment. That’s how he explained it among friends.Hillary did the same thing at a closed fundraiser, calling half of Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables”—racist, sexist, homophobic, and other names.Certainly, Trump calls people names, and people call Trump names; it’s part of the process.But what’s unusual is that when they’re among their own, at a fundraiser or closed session, when they don’t think the world is listening, they reveal their true feelings—a deep disgust and hatred for the Tea Party, Republicans, and Trump supporters.That’s how they feel, and as we head into election day, that’s something to keep in mind. It’s not just a contest between two candidates; it’s a contest between outlooks—a movement that hates the other side to their core and reveals that when among their own.They told us how they really feel.
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