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For starters he didn't walk around calling them uneducated idiots like many on the left have and continue to do.

Bernie and Trump are touching into the same underlying problem that a lot of people have been left behind. They have felt screwed by the system for awhile and this is what we get. Heck, Bernie supporters got screwed again during the primary.

This is also only the start. Wait until we automate all fast food and driving jobs to see what a angry, jobless populace looks like.



Clinton called somebody idiots? I thought she only called Trump an idiot. Which doesn't seem like an unfair assessment.

I mean as far as name-calling goes, I got the impression Hillary is doing almost none of that; whereas Trump was vicious.


Remember when she called them a "bag of deplorables"? Not that trump was exactly statesman like, but I don't remember him insulting Clinton supporters, just Clinton herself.


“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

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

“Some of those folks,” she added, “they are irredeemable.”




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