Scenes From Deplorable America: Some Trump Supporters Are Putting Their Bigotry on Full Display

Matthew Rozsa
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 Salon
January 20, 2017

If you want to know why Hillary Clinton referred to Donald Trump supporters as “a basket of deplorables,” you need look no further than the deplorable behavior being displayed among them in Washington during the inauguration.

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