If you don't think the kind of people that were called 'deplorable' are deplorable, then you don't belong here.
As the term was first famously used, it referred pretty much to all mainstream Americans who didn't support the insane and destructive Democratic agenda. Mrs. Clinton described those who didn't support her as a
“basket of deplorables”.
WRONG.
Roll tape.
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."
"Half of Rump's supporters".
Who are "Rump's supporters"? How do we count them? Absent any better method we could count those who eventually voted for him ---- even though that would be way too generous given the volume of voters who voted for either candidate for no other reason than to block the other one, who really can't be called "supporters". But while we know that slice of the vote is significant, we have no way to count it, so we ignore it and include all of Rump's voters, which was 46% of the vote.
Now what was the voter base relative to eligible registered voters? The turnout was 55%, a figure that most countries with elections would be mortified by but normal for us. 45% of registered voters looked at the choices and said "what's the point?" and stayed home or did something else.
55% of 46% equals 25%. That's how many registered voters voted for Rump --- 25% of them.
Then there are unregisterded eligible voters -- those who could be registered but didn't bother. Another 30% of those eligible, not registered, meaning seven-tenths of those who could vote, registered to. And that figure is rounded up.
Seven-tenths of 25% and we're down to 17.5% of all eligible voters -- the entire body of everyone who could vote for Rump if they wanted to. 17.5% of that body.
Back to the original quote: "
half of Trump's supporters"
One-half of 17.5% is
8.75% of all eligible voters. And that figure is way high owing to the conundrum of how to define "supporters" -- we're actually counting not "supporters" but "voters".
AND all of that is taking "half" literally rather than the "grossly generalistic" sense in which it was introduced right there in the quote.
All of that aside,
zero % of those numbers represent "those who didn't support her" since she wasn't even talking about that.
In any case the point STANDS. There is no way the subject of that quote even at 8.75% can be morphed into "Americans" ----
which would have included the speaker herself. Just as there is no way that a single person named "Hillary Clinton" can be morphed into the entire body of "Democrats".