By Patrick J. Buchanan - Biden’s gaffe and Burchard’s slur have this in common: Both manifest a measure of condescension toward a large bloc of voters... Hillary Clinton did something similar in 2016... At a closed-door gathering of contributors, she volunteered, to their amusement, that half of all Trump’s voters belong in a “basket of deplorables” for being “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.”... Their pathologies are part of their character, Clinton was saying. And while many were “irredeemable,” fortunately, they are “not America.”