* When he started mass-leaking DNC e-mails. Being persecuted by the left-wing Swedish government for “raping” a woman who let him sleep over the next few days and went out to parties with him afterward helped too.
* Basket of deplorables is a very odd phrase, and one suspects it must have been fed to her by one of her speechwriters.
It is unusual to see deplorable used as a noun, but there might be some correlation with Les Miserables and in fact the word déplorable is probably more common in French than in English. In Spanish it translates as canasta de deplorables, but I have never heard the expression used in Spanish. However, one gets the feeling that this must be a translation from another language.
#BasketofDeplorables comprised of Americans who understand statistical reality and won't lie about it. https://t.co/L9NwsIncAy
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) September 10, 2016