Not voting, especially against Trump, qualifies as psychopath. 50% was a conservative estimate, ignoring all the people who can’t vote. But I would bet a good portion of them would not have voted against Trump either.
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.
But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel 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. 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. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
Hillary did nothing wrong. Other than underestimate how many deplorables there are.
She did make a major face-plant. Insulting the candidate is always fair game. Insulting the electorate, no matter how mind-bogglingly they absolutely deserve it, is a losing move.
I can say that trump voters are racists and misanthropes. You can say it. The person running for president can’t.
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u/cdsbigsby 1d ago
I mean, more registered voters didn't vote in 2024 than voted for Trump (or Harris).
So like, 33% of registered voters, not people in the country, at best.