“Basket of deplorables”

That’s what Hillary just called half of Trump’s supporters. 

Here’s exactly what she said at a recent fundraiser:  "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."

The way the polls stand right now that would be about a quarter of the voting public

If you want to understand how Hillary could still lose this election – even against a seriously flawed candidate like Trump – this classic example of Democrat arrogance and disdain for wide swaths of the American public is how. Democrats routinely treat the general public as stupid, and mock their own base in private, but every now and then they can’t resist letting us know how they really feel. 

This was one of those times. 

Democrats always believe they are the smartest people in the room. The most cultured. The most worldly. The most “enlightened.” Everybody else is an ignorant, bigoted, bozo. 

That’s why they see no problem with lying to the public, and even to their own base. They fully expect nobody else to be smart enough to catch them. 

And if they do get caught, so what? They think most Americans have such a short attention span they’ll forget anyway. Harry Reid blatantly and knowingly lied about Romney not paying taxes for years; later, he laughed about it and said it helped defeat Romney anyway.    

They are so proud of themselves they can’t keep it to themselves.  That’s often why they lose the big elections, as they might this one as well. 

They really don’t care much what the regular folks think. In a lot of ways, they are completely tone deaf and indifferent to the optics.  Remember John Kerry windsurfing.  Remember the petulance and open contempt by Al Gore during his debates with George W. 

More recently, remember Obama yucking it up with his golf buddies shortly after an American was beheaded. Or Hillary saying “What difference does it make now” when questioned about the deaths in Benghazi. Or Hillary saying: “What? With a dust cloth?” when asked whether she had wiped her server intentionally to destroy e-mails.     

It’s this arrogance that’s always pissed me off. 

Most times, Democrats get away with it. Their pals in the media try to bury these things as not worth a lot of coverage.  Nothing to see here.  But when Romney said in a private fundraiser that the 47% of the public that paid no taxes and depended on government would probably not vote for him, he was an elitist, and that story stayed in the news cycle up until the election.   

What’s unusual this time with Hillary’s comments is that practically every media outlet has reported what she said, often as the lead story. Now, some folks will see this as a sign that the media is finally stepping up and doing their job. 

Sadly, I don’t think that’s the case. I believe the more liberal media outlets reported it because they believe it’s actually true, or would like their readers to believe it’s true.  Anything they can do to demonize Trump and his followers is acceptable. They think they are serving a higher purpose by damaging Trump whenever possible. 

It's part of a long-running campaign to paint Republicans as the party of dolts.  

Someone on Facebook posted a “poll” by Bloomberg recently that was headlined:  “Trump Beats Clinton Among Least-Educated Whites in Bloomberg Poll.”  

However If you drilled down on this "poll" the data showed  that Hillary tops Trump -- 41% to 39% -- among ALL voters with no college degree.  Which means she also probably has a clear majority of least-educated voters among all races in her camp.  Her favorability ratings were also significantly higher than Trump among non-white, no-college voters: Clinton was viewed favorably by 78 percent and Trump viewed favorably by just 17 percent.

Wasn’t the headline though, was it? The point Democrats want to relentlessly drive home is that Trump supporters are ignorant racists and bigots, so don’t be part of that group.  Vote with the cool crowd – the smarter, more worldly and more enlightened folks: Democrats.

You don’t want to associate with ignorant racists and bigots, do you?  Democrats are so much smarter and tolerant. Hillary recommended in the same speech that her supporters should stage "interventions" with anybody they know is a Trump supporter.  "Friends don’t let friends vote for Trump,” she added.  

They like promoting that Democrats are always more intelligent than Republicans.  It’s the same crap they pull when they produce online “lists” of the “most intelligent” Presidents (mostly Democrats) and the “worst” Presidents (mostly Republicans).

This is what’s known as propaganda by any other name.  But like propaganda, they believe if you repeat this nonsense frequently enough it starts being considered true. 

I personally don’t believe 25% of the voting public is “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it." Do you?  However, I think Democrats actually do. And it’s this open contempt for the ordinary folks that might cost them this election.    

On the other hand, I do believe more than 25% -- perhaps as much as half or more – of the most strident Democrats and their allies in the media are lying weasels no one should trust.

But that’s just me.