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red_sox_777 posted...

What's the point of the statement then? Almost everyone agrees those things are bad. She said it was half of people who supported Trump.

You can argue about "half", but at that point you are determining what % of Trump's supporters fall into those categories, and the issue is that it's a problematically high %. Whether you settle at 49% or 18% or 26% or whatever you think it really should be, it's a problem. Not only is it a problem, but it's a high enough % that it's the kind of rhetoric that won him the nomination. And sure, a large % of republicans allowed themselves to be fooled that he's just a "successful businessman" that they can hold their nose while they cast a vote for him.. But you can't deny the not-insignificant percentage of mask-off terrible people who loved Trump because of the way he enabled them. When you have that many awful people agreeing that one of the candidates is "their guy" then you should really spend a minute to try and figure out why that is.