{"id":131599,"date":"2016-09-21T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/is-it-okay-to-at-least-call-these-people-deplorables.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:30:26","slug":"is-it-okay-to-at-least-call-these-people-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/is-it-okay-to-at-least-call-these-people-deplorables.html","title":{"rendered":"*Is it okay to at least call THESE people "Deplorables"?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is certainly a degree to which a political leader is not responsible for their followers. Any political movement is going to gather about it a few folk of dubious qualities.<\/p>\n

But when a candidate is (a) collecting huge swathes of folk who ordinarily would be shunned as holding truly ugly opinions, and (b) declines to reject support from them and their ilk, then the candidate in question has to start taking the heat for encouraging, if not depending or even allying with them.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

This, in turn, should<\/i> give the supporters of that candidate who are not racist, sexist, xenophobic yahoos a certain amount of pause. Their reasons for supporting the candidate may seem perfectly legitimate and comparable to any other political race. But do they really want a candidate who draws so much support from people one presumes they, too, reject? Do they really want those folk to feel like their cause has been justified by that candidate winning? At what point does lying down with dogs mean getting up with fleas?<\/p>\n

#BasketOfDeplorables<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThis horde of neo-Nazis, KKK, and other extremist leaders all openly backing Trump is chilling<\/a><\/span>
\nTrump has not disavowed any of them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is certainly a degree to which a political leader is not responsible for their followers. Any political movement is going to gather about it a few folk of dubious qualities. But when a candidate is (a) collecting huge swathes of folk who ordinarily would be shunned as holding truly ugly opinions, and (b) declines … Continue reading “*Is it okay to at least call THESE people "Deplorables"?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[1002],"class_list":["post-131599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-basketofdeplorables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131805,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/16\/when-a-political-endorsement-brings-death-threats.html","url_meta":{"origin":131599,"position":0},"title":"When a political endorsement brings death threats","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 16-Oct-16 5:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the conservative Arizona Republic newspaper endorsed, for the first time, a Democrat for president [http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/opinion\/editorial\/2016\/09\/27\/hillary-clinton-endorsement\/91198668\/], reporters and the publisher have received accusations of being traitors, death threats, reminders of previously assassinated journalists, promises of damnation, and warnings that they will be shut down under a new administration. 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