Flanking the Basket

Hillary's "basket of deplorables" is a poor figure of speech. That's one problem. But, more importantly, Hillary has outflanked and run around them, which is bad politics and bad morality. Democrats stand for inclusion and not objectifying anyone. 

Somebody still has to govern. It isn't any easier when you insult people. Hillary should have reminded them, over and again, that Republican politicians cost them their jobs, bankrupted the government and caused the housing bubble and recession.

And, for the icing, Hillary should have pointed out that the right-wing nabobs got rich(er) while doing it, giving the deplorables something to think about while Paul Ryan and his crew screw them in new, imaginative ways. It's probably too late now.