The hack gap explains why Clinton’s email server received more television news coverage than all policy issues combined in the 2016 election. While conservatives obsess over the (accurate) observation that the average straight news reporter has policy views that are closer to the Democratic Party than the Republican Party, the hack gap fundamentally does more to structure political discourse. The reason is something I’ve dubbed “the hack gap” over the years, and it’s one of the most fundamental asymmetries shaping American politics. Anybody is much more than half.- Jonathan Allen October 20, 2018 Trump tonight: "Anybody who votes for a Democrat now is crazy."ĭeplorable is more evocative. Hillary Clinton: "you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables." This past Friday, meanwhile, President Trump said that 100 percent of people planning to vote Democratic in the upcoming midterms - a majority of the electorate, in other words - are “crazy.” Nobody cared and almost nobody even noticed. The mainstream press covered the controversy intensively, and left-of-center pundits weighed in with a range of takes, including one from yours truly, which concluded that Clinton really had messed up by violating “the norm against attacking the other party’s constituents” rather than its politicians. Republican Party politicians and conservative pundits harped on the line, providing a point of party unity at a time when many party and movement stalwarts were reluctant to actually praise Trump. Insulting rank-and-file Republicans (even if it was only about half of them) was treated as a huge national scandal.
The rest, she allowed, were fundamentally good people, pushed by circumstance into embracing Trump, and she was hoping to win them over. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic - you name it.” In the fall of 2016, Hillary Clinton, asked at a fundraiser how she explained the political appeal of Donald Trump, said that “to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
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