Back in 2016 when she was running for the U.S. presidency, Hillary Clinton made a shocking — and unwise — comment about “deplorables” who were among Donald Trump’s supporters.
In what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton cited some Trump backers as “racists, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic.”
Clinton insisted she was speaking about only a small percentage of Trump’s followers, but the damage to her campaign was done, with analysts denouncing the comment and Trump fans soon proudly sporting hats and T-shirts labelling themselves as deplorable.
