The elite ruling class harbors deep disdain for the unwashed masses who refuse to get in line behind its agenda. The Left’s leaders often keep their disgust hidden, but occasionally it slips out.
Barack Obama notoriously let the mask slip in April 2008. Of working-class voters in old industrial towns, the Democratic candidate for president said, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Obama initially stood by his comments, but then said he would “deeply regret” the comments if any Americans were offended.
Hillary Clinton, campaigning against Obama at the time in the Democratic primaries, condemned his remarks as “demeaning,” “elitist,” and “out of touch.”
Yet in 2016, she notoriously said: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of [then-presidential candidate Donald] Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” She described this “basket” as “the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.”
So, when President Joe Biden compared Trump supporters to “garbage” on Tuesday, he was following in a long and ignominious line of Democrats who let their disgust with their fellow Americans seep through.
In online remarks from the White House, Biden spoke Tuesday to rally Latino supporters of his chosen successor, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden condemned a remark from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” while speaking Sunday before Trump at a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
(Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez quickly said Hinchcliffe’s joke “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” Trump himself told ABC News of Hinchcliffe: “I don’t know him, someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is.”)
“They’re good, decent honorable people,” Biden said of Puerto Ricans in his remarks Tuesday about Trump. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of these people is unconscionable and it’s un-American.”
Biden later released a statement on X, the........