Rednecks, Deplorables, and Catholics (Oh My!)

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Rednecks, Deplorables, and Catholics (Oh My!)

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Dave Carter

October 19, 2016

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Eight years ago, we were an amorphous blob, a nondescript and motley collection of malcontents who, “…get bitter, they cling to guns, or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.” However, this description of those who would later comprise at least part of the Tea Party by then-Senator Obama was hopelessly out of focus as it could apply in equal measure to the KKK, Islamic radicals, Black Lives Matter, Bill Ayers and his Weather Underground bombers, or the Beverly Hillbillies. But now, thanks to that rollicking fun couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton, who discombobulated the word “is,” who popularized speculation on what sort of underwear the president prefers, who compromised America’s national security, and who made it fashionable to use an intern as a humidor, we now have some clarification.

 

Actually, they were referring to everyday Americans, a term which we recently learned sets Mrs. Clinton’s teeth on edge, but which describes those who who don’t wield a great deal of power, and yet they go to work every day, obey the law, pull their own weight in society and expect others to do the same, and aren’t terribly well disposed to being ordered about by power-hungry utopians whose little schemes deprive them of their earnings, their liberty, and their dignity. But as the old saying goes, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” because not only have the Clintons brought we bitter-clingers into sharper focus but, to employ the latest in trendy vernacular, we’ve become “more inclusive,” pushing back the boundaries of our ostensible narrow-mindedness and philistine respect for the Constitution to become more “diverse.” Because we now have it on the authority of the Clintons that our ranks have grown to include Rednecks, Deplorables, and Catholics, all of whom are evidently to be treated as cultural lepers.