Deplorables Defined

I know that some Trump followers think they are cleaver by embracing the term “Deplorable” for themselves after Hillary Clinton referred to some Trump supporters as being deplorable.  I am not going to address the issue as whether or not Hillary Clinton should or should not have said it.  I am not going to address the issue as to whether or not I agree with her assessment.  I am only going to talk about the self-definition.

While I can kind of understand the need to self-identify in some cutesy way, you could do better than this.  For those Trump followers who have the ability to read, I point you to any dictionary on the English language (U.S. or British English).  The definition of deplorable, under any definition and under any circumstances, is not laudable at all.

If you choose to define yourself as such I assure you that you are not going to attract any acolytes, but then again I am not sure that this is your goal.  I do not believe that you have much of a change in adding a new definition to the dictionary such as was done with the word “gay”,  I assume that you are more than willing to embrace the fact that you are marginalized and wish to remain so.

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