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Is Deplorabilism a coherent ideology and what are its tenets (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 OP
Hate. yallerdawg Feb 2017 #1
Hyper-nationalism and anti-knowledge and anti-expertise. nt stevenleser Feb 2017 #2
Fourteen defining characteristics: lastlib Feb 2017 #3
it's a weird variation of "I've got mine screw you" NRaleighLiberal Feb 2017 #4
Massive self-loathing and a sense of aggrieved status, no matter what the "so-called facts" (n/t) FreepFryer Feb 2017 #5

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. Hate.
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 12:39 PM
Feb 2017

Unbridled hate.

Mr. Precedent seethes with hatred, his sycophants spout hatred, and his Deplorable minions bask in hatred.

Our mantra remains:

NRaleighLiberal

(60,006 posts)
4. it's a weird variation of "I've got mine screw you"
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 12:58 PM
Feb 2017

mixed with "those people aren't like me in (fill in the blanks - appearance, orientation, religion) ways - and I am scared shitless of them

mixed with "I accepted jeebus in my heart so I am saved so screw anyone else - because they are wrong and doomed"

mixed with "I don't believe anything that I've not been told by people just like me"

a few other flavors mixed in.

They are something unique - purebred mongrels - kind of

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