Secretary Clinton said something in a speech last night which caused the professional pearl-clutchers in the media to gasp and caused the Republicans to feign offense, saying she’d called their voters a bad thing. Here’s the text; you decide.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

[Laughter/applause]

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

I don’t see any falsehoods in there. Trump has been endorsed by what’s called the alt-right, far-right white supremacists which include David Duke of the KKK, Rocky Suhayda of the American Nazi Party, and Don Black of Stormfront, a leading white nationalist website.

The other basket Clinton mentions isn’t offensive as the first group is; it’s made up of the people whose wages have been stagnant for several decades and those whose manufacturing jobs have vanished, replaced by jobs which pay far less and are likely not unionized as their previous jobs were. Those are the people who Bernie Sanders tried to address during his primary campaign.