I like your response. It brings to mind the Anna Karenina principle: Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And as there are many ways to be an unhappy family, there are many ways to be deplorable. How many varieties of deplorability are there in Hillary’s basket of deplorables? We need a typology: techno bros, the denizens of Wall Street, narrow minded racists, party ideologues, Fox News addicts, unprincipled news hosts, people who think reality TV is real, misogynists. Not sure, however, that being stupid qualifies as deplorable, unless stupidity is one’s choice.
I like your response. It brings to mind the Anna Karenina principle: Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And as there are many ways to be an unhappy family, there are many ways to be deplorable. How many varieties of deplorability are there in Hillary’s basket of deplorables? We need a typology: techno bros, the denizens of Wall Street, narrow minded racists, party ideologues, Fox News addicts, unprincipled news hosts, people who think reality TV is real, misogynists. Not sure, however, that being stupid qualifies as deplorable, unless stupidity is one’s choice.
+ homophobia and xenophobia! At their core, most of these traits are based in fear and hatred of the other.