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Better, I've gotten some of these:
"Because of YOU PERSONALLY I am going to vote for Trump but was going to vote for Biden before"
I saw a couple of those just today.
Oh no if only a single person on the internet hadn't upset them, they could have voted for harm reduction. But now they have to vote contrary to what they want. So tragic.
It's not so different from those saying that Hillary speaking plainly about awful people somehow did her election in..."zomg! If only Hillary had not said something something basket!1111"
Repubs have zero principles nor integrity. The same assholes who were screeching about emails are saying it's okay to sell classified documents out of a bathroom. They pick some rhetoric they like and latch on. I don't know how many of them deliberately coordinate on that kind of lie or if most just see it and repeat it.
Her mistake was not owning that. Had I been her, this is how I'd have approached that.
"I recently said at an LGBT fundraiser that roughly half of the people who support Trump are deplorable. I stand by that comment. Between the ones that hate Black and Hispanic people, the ones who think women belong in kitchens and not running the country, the ones who would rather a man who loves a man or a woman who loves a woman be erased from society, and the ones who think we should kill all Muslims and convert them to Christianity, there's an awful lot of really awful people in the GOP. And I'm going to keep calling these people deplorable, because they are, and as for the question about if I've written off tens of millions of people, I ask Anderson Cooper how can you not write off these kinds of people. But what was not mentioned in this whole kerfuffle was that I also said there's another huge group of people voting on Team Red's side that just want the nation to recognise their pain and not write them off. We need to convince them that while he'll make their lives different, it won't be for the better. Maybe instead of trying to somehow reach out to racist xenophobic assholes, I can better spend my time reaching out to those who feel left behind."
She tried to run away from that comment, and that just reinforced the fact that she's unwilling to stand up for what she believes in. And the worst thing of all is that she was right. The GOP has an awful lot of really, really awful people in it...
Yes, exactly right. I've never been a big fan of how the Clintons try to run things by polls and/or the media jibberjabber of the day. Addressing it in the fashion you laid out would have been the right thing to do.