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Mr_Lasastryke posted...

I mean, the radical left is still a pretty large group of people. Is the argument "insulting half of the Republicans is bad but insulting any group smaller than that is fine"?

The difference is that Trump's usage is tautological. Radical people are by definition radical while non-radical people are not radical. So if no percentage is given, people can decide that they are not radical. And they can decide that the percentage must be low enough that people they know who they like must not be radical.

Hillary said half of Trump supporters are deplorable. Since obviously nowhere near that many people self-identity as deplorable, she meant that people who don't consider themselves deplorable are deplorable.