(CNN) It is deplorable to undermine the credibility of a federal judge based on his Mexican heritage. It is deplorable to demean a Gold Star family and propose to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. It is deplorable for a candidate for president of a major party to kick off his campaign by labeling most Mexicans as rapists and murderers. It is deplorable when the Justice Department feels it has to sue you a second time for racial discrimination because you didn't get the hint the first time. It is deplorable to play footsie with David Duke, to repeatedly retweet white nationalists and false stats about black men and crime, to praise the enthusiasm of supporters who beat a homeless Hispanic man in Boston and punch a black man at rally, to say black people have a lazy trait and have them ushered off the casino floor when you show up.Issac Bailey: It's important for Clinton to speak clearly about dangers Trump has unleashedBailey: Most foul-thinking of Trump supporters ARE America, but they are NOT irredeemable
The public has struggled as it has grappled with _'s new brand of bigotry, the promotion of a kind of hate that until now had existed at the far margins of politics and was censured by all decent people when it crept into the public discourse. "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of _'s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.