Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It wasn’t good, no. Using an uncommon word like that made it easier for them to rebrand it than just speaking plainly would have.

    Besides, “half of his supporters are a basket of deplorables” is a horribly inelegant sentence and she’d been in politics more than long enough to know that the right wing echochamber would remove the “half of” part from the collective consciousness and inflate their own numbers to make people believe she was talking about half of the population rather than 9%.