Citations:deplorable

Noun: "(US, politics, often derogatory) a Trumpist conservative"

 * 2016, Miranda Devine, "The revenge of the deplorables", The Daily Telegraph (Australia), 10 November 2016:
 * It's the revenge of the deplorables. The silent majority has roared . . . The outsiders have given a black eye to the Establishment, just as they did with Brexit in the UK.
 * 2017, Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of, unnumbered page:
 * The votes for Brexit and Trump represented a revolt of the Others, a demonstration by the deplorables, against the Clerisy.
 * 2017, Joel Pollak & Larry Schweikart, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, unnumbered page:
 * Trump had exploited both the deplorables and the marginalized, Clinton said, by using websites that had previously been on the fringe to amplify his message, appealing to old-fashioned bigotry and new economic resentment to earn millions of votes.
 * 2018, Steve Fuller, Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game, unnumbered page:
 * And by turning symmetry to their advantage, the deplorables got results, at least insofar as the balance of power has gradually tilted more in their favour – again, for better or worse.
 * 2018, Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, page 355:
 * He did not say who “the guys” were—but Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.
 * 2019, Dan Michaels, Bitch That Trump, unnumbered page:
 * The 'mindless alternation' explains the general trend of their president's party doing less well in the midterms as compared to the presidential election with on this occasion the deplorables who had voted for Trump in 2016 having the opportunity to pretend to be decent people, and 'free thinkers' to boot, by voting in the midterms for whomever happened to represent 'the other side'.
 * 2019, Rory McVeigh & Kevin Estep, The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment, unnumbered page:
 * It was not so much the support of the deplorables, or the alt-right, or the out-and-out white supremacists, even though they may be the loudest of his supporters.
 * 2019, Michael Wolff, Siege: Trump Under Fire, unnumbered page:
 * Trump's fate, Bannon declared, rested with the deplorables, who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.
 * 2020, Joshua L. Powell, Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia Within the Most Powerful Political Group in America, unnumbered page:
 * The “deplorables” showed up and whisked Trump into office.
 * 2020, Sam Powell, Old White Man: Christian Patriot Deplorable?, unnumbered page:
 * I know I'm a deplorable, but do we think our American culture has made any real improvements over the past several decades.
 * 2020, Andrew Hartman, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, page 290:
 * In 1997, then National Rifle Association (NRA) vice president Charlton Heston delivered a tongue-in-cheek speech on behalf of the deplorables, titled “Fighting the Culture War in America”:
 * 2020, Mark Keating, Here Comes the Night, unnumbered page:
 * In fact, would you believe that Ned suggested that implementing intelligent apes into society and allowing them the vote over the deplorables that do vote, would be a better.
 * 2020, Robert Sneider, American Lynchpin: The Spirit of Freedom and the Second Civil War, unnumbered pages:
 * I am a deplorable; guilty. I cling to God, guns, and my Bible; guilty.
 * 2020, Rick Wilson, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--And Democrats from Themselves, page 265:
 * The self-image of the deplorables is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.