OPINION:
Before Hillary Clinton castigates Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables,” perhaps she should take a closer look at her own political base as well as her own political machine — not to mention her candor and the Clinton Foundation (“Hillary Clinton backpedals as ’deplorables’ threatens to become her own ’47% moment,’” Web, Sept. 11).
Voters gave candidate Barack Obama a pass when he similarly depreciated a class of his fellow Americans in 2008 as “cling[ing] to their guns and religion.” Perhaps this time around voters may not be so similarly inclined.
GORDON E. FINLEY
Professor of psychology emeritus
Florida International University
Miami
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