[Happy Monkey]

And what was the history of that term? Clinton explicitly defined it as the "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic" subset of Trump supporters, while simultaneously saying that the rest of them were "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."

It was conservatives who insisted that the term "deplorable" applied to all of them.