Post by the Scribe on Sept 23, 2021 21:41:31 GMT
Hillary Clinton's 'Deplorables' Warning Is Coming True, Salon Writer Says
www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clintons-deplorables-warning-coming-173107823.html
Ron Dicker
Wed, September 22, 2021, 10:31 AM
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 warning about the “deplorables” emerging in the Republican Party when Donald Trump ran against her for president wasn’t just correct; she underestimated their impact, a Salon commentator wrote in a scathing essay posted Wednesday.
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/hillary-clinton
www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-trump-deplorables_n_57d3af14e4b06a74c9f4ec70
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump
www.salon.com/2021/09/22/hillary-clinton-tried-to-warn-us--and-paid-the-price-lets-at-least-call-what-they-are/
“In many ways, Clinton was too kind,” Chauncey DeVega wrote. “If anything, she underestimated how many Americans were in fact committed and enthusiastic human deplorables.”
www.salon.com/writer/chauncey_de_vega
The political essayist is not the first to revisit Clinton’s speech of late. The Washington Post recently noted that some called the former senator’s remarks “prescient.” The Baltimore Sun declared last year, “Ms. Clinton was right.”
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/31/deplorables-basket-hillary-clinton/
www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0204-leonard-pitts-hillary-clinton-trump-supporters-20200203-qqyklupzzvh7zh3ga2iknxdaqm-story.html
But DeVega’s take is worth a look through its alarming lens of just how clairvoyant Clinton proved to be.
In a 2016 campaign speech, Clinton mentioned the millions of racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic followers empowered by Trump. She grouped them in a “basket of deplorables” and was condemned by many, including some Democrats, for the remarks.
www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-trump-deplorables_n_57d3af14e4b06a74c9f4ec70
“That reaction to Clinton’s truth-telling helped to [legitimize] Trumpism and American neofascism (operating under the mask of “populism”) as something that was reasonable and understandable, rather than as a manifestation of racial resentment,” DeVega wrote.
FBI data reported by Brookings in 2019 indicated that Trump’s election spurred the second-highest uptick in hate crime, just behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The hate also fed on Trump’s threat of crackdowns against those protesting George Floyd’s death by police. He also fueled the rise of anti-Asian American sentiment because of his “Chinese virus” rhetoric in referring to COVID-19.
www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/
www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/politics/trump-george-floyd-protests/index.html
abcnews.go.com/Health/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet-helped-lead-rise-racist/story?id=76530148
DeVega asserted that if Clinton had won the presidency, America “would not necessarily be drowning under a fascist tide which has imperiled our democracy and our future.”
Then the writer took an even more ominous turn.
“Matters are now so dire that it is now not a question of whether American democracy will succumb to a nightmare reign of full-on fascism but rather when that will happen,” he wrote. “If America’s neofascist movement continues to gain momentum, Joe Biden will be relegated to the role of a speed bump or an asterisk in American history.”
Read the full commentary at Salon.
www.salon.com/2021/09/22/hillary-clinton-tried-to-warn-us%E2%80%95and-paid-the-price-lets-at-least-call-what-they-are/
Hillary Clinton Comes Face-To-Face With The 'Borat' Conspiracy Theorists
www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-borat_n_60a8b82ae4b0d56a83e9d4aa
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clintons-deplorables-warning-coming-173107823.html
Ron Dicker
Wed, September 22, 2021, 10:31 AM
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 warning about the “deplorables” emerging in the Republican Party when Donald Trump ran against her for president wasn’t just correct; she underestimated their impact, a Salon commentator wrote in a scathing essay posted Wednesday.
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/hillary-clinton
www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-trump-deplorables_n_57d3af14e4b06a74c9f4ec70
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump
www.salon.com/2021/09/22/hillary-clinton-tried-to-warn-us--and-paid-the-price-lets-at-least-call-what-they-are/
“In many ways, Clinton was too kind,” Chauncey DeVega wrote. “If anything, she underestimated how many Americans were in fact committed and enthusiastic human deplorables.”
www.salon.com/writer/chauncey_de_vega
The political essayist is not the first to revisit Clinton’s speech of late. The Washington Post recently noted that some called the former senator’s remarks “prescient.” The Baltimore Sun declared last year, “Ms. Clinton was right.”
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/31/deplorables-basket-hillary-clinton/
www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0204-leonard-pitts-hillary-clinton-trump-supporters-20200203-qqyklupzzvh7zh3ga2iknxdaqm-story.html
But DeVega’s take is worth a look through its alarming lens of just how clairvoyant Clinton proved to be.
In a 2016 campaign speech, Clinton mentioned the millions of racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic followers empowered by Trump. She grouped them in a “basket of deplorables” and was condemned by many, including some Democrats, for the remarks.
www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-trump-deplorables_n_57d3af14e4b06a74c9f4ec70
“That reaction to Clinton’s truth-telling helped to [legitimize] Trumpism and American neofascism (operating under the mask of “populism”) as something that was reasonable and understandable, rather than as a manifestation of racial resentment,” DeVega wrote.
FBI data reported by Brookings in 2019 indicated that Trump’s election spurred the second-highest uptick in hate crime, just behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The hate also fed on Trump’s threat of crackdowns against those protesting George Floyd’s death by police. He also fueled the rise of anti-Asian American sentiment because of his “Chinese virus” rhetoric in referring to COVID-19.
www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/
www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/politics/trump-george-floyd-protests/index.html
abcnews.go.com/Health/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet-helped-lead-rise-racist/story?id=76530148
DeVega asserted that if Clinton had won the presidency, America “would not necessarily be drowning under a fascist tide which has imperiled our democracy and our future.”
Then the writer took an even more ominous turn.
“Matters are now so dire that it is now not a question of whether American democracy will succumb to a nightmare reign of full-on fascism but rather when that will happen,” he wrote. “If America’s neofascist movement continues to gain momentum, Joe Biden will be relegated to the role of a speed bump or an asterisk in American history.”
Read the full commentary at Salon.
www.salon.com/2021/09/22/hillary-clinton-tried-to-warn-us%E2%80%95and-paid-the-price-lets-at-least-call-what-they-are/
Hillary Clinton Comes Face-To-Face With The 'Borat' Conspiracy Theorists
www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-borat_n_60a8b82ae4b0d56a83e9d4aa
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.