basket of deplorables

CIVILITY PRIOR TO THE ORANGEMAN TWEETS? Lamentable, very sad, grievous, miserable, wretched "Basket of deplorables" is a phrase fro m a 2016 presidential election campaign speech delivered by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on September 9, 2016, at a campaign fundraising event1. Clinton used the phrase to describe half of the supporters of her opponent, Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying "They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic...