It's hardly ever going to turn out to have been the right call when a public person decides "to just be grossly generalistic."
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You've already pretty much said at that point that the comment that follows is going to go too far.
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Maybe Hillary Clinton and her campaign actually have decided that 50% of Donald Trump's supporters are "deplorable," but I don't think so.
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But, my point is that the language that Clinton used—the "to just be grossly generalistic" line—suggests that she doesn't think it's so.
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Clinton knows well how to present facts and numbers and information. She does it all the time and does it well. Here, she used a big caveat.
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My point is: Why use that "grossly generalistic" caveat and then say the line? What was Clinton actually trying to accomplish here?
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If she wanted to go at it, she could. But she didn't. She majorly hedged it by saying "grossly generalistic," then made the claim. She ...
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... undermined the claim before she made it. I'm just confused. She knew the "basket" line would cause a ruckus, so why the huge hedging?
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Please read the 8 preceding tweets (& this 1) together as one line of thought. I'm really just confused by combo of the hedge & the attack.
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