First off, gamma’s very first posts were inaccurate portrayal’s of Clinton’s comments (see below). Which, I think can be argued, in hind sight, to be fairly accurate at that point in 2016.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
She said the other half of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.”
“Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,” she said.
I would agree with your quote below if it were still 2016, just as Clinton did.
But now here we are in 2019 and the population that can be labeled as a “Trump Supporter” is smaller than it was in 2016. Largely due to those who may have voted for or supported Trump in 2016 for “rational” traditional conservative policy reasons or even just because he had a “R” after his name on the ballot can no longer be counted as a “supporter”; the remainder have earned their labels.
Now I get where you are coming from with, perhaps, an instinctual negative reaction “labeling them all”, but while, from a literal perspective, you are probably right that not everything single one of them is a racist or bigot or misogynist or etc dang if they are still all-in with Trump at this point I don’t feel much sympathy if they get inadvertently labeled as such.
I know you have edited your comments re: Trump and I personally can’t comment about Brexit, but current, 2019 Trump supporters have had plenty of time, action and evidence to see what he is about and none of it is good.
