‘Be careful’: CNN panel frets that Biden may have had a ‘basket of deplorables’ moment

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CNN has speculated on Thursday morning that President Joe Biden’s smearing of the MAGA movement as extreme could possibly be his “basket of deplorables” moment.

In a public statement after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that, if a majority of the court goes along with it, could overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Biden appeared to be test-marketing a campaign slogan provided to him by his inner circle.

According to Biden, obviously without any evidence whatsoever, “this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history.”

It’s also another classic case of projection by a Democrat who has presided, at least nominally, over an administration that seeks to implement a radical, far-left agenda in perhaps every aspect of the government operations, which includes an inflationary, massive federal spending spree.

According to CNN in the video clip embedded above, Biden is aiming “to sharpen his midterm messaging” as the campaign season draws closer.

While trying and failing to be clever, recall that Democrat Hillary Clinton, the globalist 2016 presidential loser, infamously branded many Trump fans (an America First constituency that included and still includes Dems and independents as well as Republicans) as a “basket of deplorables.”

“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” she said in September 2016.

Anchor Brianna Keilar, typically a liberal partisan who seemed more restrained in the segment than usual, asked CNN host Michael Smerconish if this was a “pivotal moment.”

Smerconish replied that Biden “is trying to put Donald Trump on the ballot…Republicans hold advantages with regard to the midterm election…now factor in inflation, factor in the border, factor in crime, and Republicans have a very strong hand in terms of the sort of the issues that motivate their base…I think President Biden is road-testing some themes to see if they get traction…”

It’s not ever clear if Democrat congressional candidates, however, want Biden, given his dismal approval ratings after a series of domestic and international disasters, to campaign with them.

In the meantime, having kingmaker Trump metaphorically on the ballot seems to be working, if Tuesday’s primary results are any indication.

Co-anchor Alex Marquardt then asked Smerconish if targeting the “MAGA crowd” could prompt a certain amount of fallout for Biden “kind of like when Hillary Clinton called this Trump base deplorables.”

This is an interesting question, especially since this is CNN, which under its former president Jeff Zucker devolved into a tedious, around-the-clock anti-Trump channel.

Parenthetically, perhaps this change in tone is a reflection of new owners Warner Bros. Discovery.

Smerconish seemed to agree that there could be blowback:

Alex, be careful. Right? Because I think that that backfired on [Clinton]. I think that she regretted it. I think it became a rallying cry. You remember there was merchandise, there was merch at the time. People were wearing T-shirts proudly proclaiming that they were part of the deplorables. So I think it’s a fine line, but I think we’re at a stage now, right, at this point in the spring, where it’s the president and his team seeing what resonates and what’s going to drive people. And the argument that he seems to have settled on yesterday is one of, if Roe versus Wade is overturned: Where else might this so-called movement lead?

The anchors then played a soundbite from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) who insisted that inflation is the top issue in his state. “It’s hurting everybody, not just at the pump, but at the grocery store, at the drug store. Inflation, getting our financial house in order, is the most important thing we can do for this economy,” the lawmaker said.

Smerconish admitted that Manchin is probably correct that inflation, rather than abortion, is foremost on the minds of voters, although the latter is a passion issue for some. “Inflation is an equal-opportunity offender…in this 24-7 news cycle, it’s just impossible to tell those things that we’ll be discussing September, October, and the first few days of November,” he added.

The subtext of this segment appeared to be that the abortion-rights controversy won’t be a galvanizing voting issue across the broader electorate, although time will tell.

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25 thoughts on “‘Be careful’: CNN panel frets that Biden may have had a ‘basket of deplorables’ moment

  1. According to Biden, obviously without any evidence whatsoever, “this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history.”

    This after he still has millions of followers with his disastrous 2 years in office. People who claim Biden is the best thing to grace the White House. So who is the extreme and who are just people who want to be free in this country.

  2. This was no mistake ! This is exactly how Biden, Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler and all the rest of the Demoncrats truly feel about conservative Americans ! They are truly EVIL !!! They are ONE SIDED and ONLY out for themselves and to hell with anyone else !

  3. I would dispute Brandon’s characterization that MAGA is the most extreme political organization in our history. I’d say that the Founding Fathers fit that description. They wrote the most radical, and yet most brilliant, political documents in the history of the world.

  4. Biden’s statement ‘MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history’ shows that he not only was a marginal law student (plagiarism), marginal U.S. Senator, and marginal Vice President. He is also a dummy with respect to his knowledge of history. I would say that you can’t get much dumber than Biden, but he has a lot of competition in the Democrat Party for who is dumbest.

  5. We are the greatest threat…………………..to the Communist Democrats! Biden is such a stupid jackass that he actually believes he can win with his crap because he actually thinks he got 80 million votes so he’s untouchable!

  6. What a DISCUSTING F**KING BASSTARD. FJB and the Country Destroying democrats.

  7. “Grey a-s the dimwit stepped in it full time”. Just like the last as shole Clinton did all the way up to his chin!! 🤡 the clown has no idea about what he is told to read or say. !!

  8. Newsflash, Joe … the “MAGA crowd” is not a “political organization”. We’re just millions and millions of grassroots Trump supporters. Unlike you leftists, we don’t use “community organizers”.

    1. Yeah as long as the As Hole recites what he is told to read it say
      MAGA will win big time

  9. THANK YOU “Foot in Mouth, Head up Ass Dementia Pedo Joey “!! You, as ALL Democrats, are SCUMBAGS.
    You AND your “son” CRACK HEAD Hunter are Pedophiles, Anti America, PRO black LIES matter, and COWARD antifa, criminals..GOOO BRANDON !!

  10. Literally, who cares what Slow Joe and his band of Anti-American loons really think…

  11. As if this is the first time Slo’ Joe has insulted decent Americans. Remember he called our servicemembers “stupid bastards” because they didn’t laugh at one of his infantile stories.

  12. Nope, I would go with the Democrat party that supports domestic terrorists Pantifa, the falsehoods of critical race theory & the grooming of children over a slogan that offends liberals and socialists alike.

  13. So much for relief from mean tweets. Instead we get nasty speeches, inflation, a Ministry of Truth, Supreme Court Justices threatened with violence and hundreds of fellow citizens locked up in gulags because of 1/6. I’ll take the nasty tweets and the prosperity any time.

  14. How long before someone markets “I am Ultra-MAGA” merchandise, just like they did with Clinton’s “Deplorables”???

  15.   Just when I think that the loons on the left have reached their max and simply can’t come up with anything more outrageous and crazy, they surprise me.
      Of course it all started with everything is racist and the ever popular, “Systemic Racism”; which can’t be defined but exists everywhere. That mantra called for everything from tearing down statues, changing sports team names, to renaming previously innocuous products like rice and pancake syrup. In its more extreme form it morphed into BLM and resulted in cities being burned down and dozens of people killed. Then came the government policy of “Diversity (anti-white), Equity (equal outcomes/Socialism), and Inclusion (Trans rights). This, of course, translated into CRT and men competing on women’s collegiate sports teams. On its more sinister side, it weaponized all the three letter government agencies (the IRS, the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the DOD) and now even the Dept. of Homeland Security against American citizens who disagreed with their nonsense and lies. Not to mention Jan. 6 protesters unconstitutionally locked up in a D.C. gulag for over a year and a half without bail or due process. 

      Now there will be new riots because some liberal looney decided to violate the sanctity of the Supreme court and leak a draft decision to impact the midterm elections. And I have not even mentioned all the idiotic destructive policies coming from the Administration causing record inflation and gas prices, record levels of crime in our cities, an open border and potentially a third world war. Nor have I mentioned the CDC lies and the hundreds of thousands of businesses closed and jobs lost over the last two years because of draconian lock downs and illegal vaccine mandates.
      But in perhaps the least consequential but greatest display of insanity I have ever seen, I just read where the Oregon Governor and legislature have passed an actual law, “The Menstrual Dignity Act”, to require schools in the state to install tampon dispensers in the boys bathrooms.
     I just don’t know if there is a way back from this level of insanity. 

  16. Biden says we are extreme? Why, because we want law and order? Closed borders? Because we want voting to be legal, with authentically registered citizens (one person-one vote) with no ballot boxes and with no ballot harvesting or ballot “mules”? Or because we also expect election laws to be set by the state legislature and not overruled by committees, Secretaries of State, or Governors? Or because we don’t want voting machines that are capable of having the legal numbers changed externally? Maybe because we don’t want shortages of food and jobs or because we think weak Presidents cause wars? Or how about because we think we have the right to raise our children with our own principles. I could go on and on!

  17. To Democrats if you disagree or point our their failing you are to be hated. 
    After all the Democrat failures the policy failures the feeling
    is the same but for good reason. 

    1. Being hated by leftists is like a badge of honor! I’ve had thirteen “former” friends and three of my cousins UNFRIEND me on Facebook! I wish it would show up when they did it, so I could “LIKE” it!! 😄

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