Bernie Sanders Upset Hillary Called His Supporters 'Basement' Dwellers
Basket of deplorables and basement dwellers -- Hillary certainly has a high opinion of the electorate.
10.3.2016
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Leaked audio of Hillary Clinton's remarks from a February fundraiser once again betrays the Democratic presidential nominee as an out-of-touch elitist.
The audio, released by The Washington Free Beacon, goes on nearly an hour and includes passages in which Clinton besmirches Bernie Sanders' supporters, implying they are naive rubes who "live in their parents' basement."
Regarding Sanders' supporters, Clinton said:
It is important to recognize what’s going on in this election. Everybody who’s ever been in an election that I’m aware of is quite bewildered because there is a strain of, on the one hand, the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican candidates. And on the other side, there’s just a deep desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, that what we’ve done hasn’t gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as, you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means, and half the people don’t know what that means, but it’s something that they deeply feel. [...] Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement.
She added, "if you’re feeling like you’re consigned to being a barista, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing."
The leaked audio made its rounds through mainstream and social media over the weekend and of course, all eyes turned to Bernie for reaction.
When asked if her comments bothered him, the socialist senator told CNN's State of the Union, "Of course it does." Like a good Democratic Party apparatchik, however, Sanders was quick to cover up for his former rival, saying that he and Clinton are working together "in a number of areas" and that she was right in her assertion that young people today are struggling with college debt and an inability to find good jobs.
"We need a political revolution," Sanders said, still unable to let go of the dream, or to accept that Clinton was caught making a mockery of it.
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