Theories
- Its literally just because Hillary Clinton sucks so hard and people didnt want to hear that shit from her
- Deplorables is too much of a vocabulary word, weird is a word everyone knows. So deplorable just comes off more elitist, from a woman who is already seen that way. To quote a friend I asked "I think deplorable has a negative connotation that speaks to core personhood, in a way that comes off as both mean spirited and elitist"
- The GOP hadnt gotten unhinged enough yet, so America wasnt ready for a campaign that is dismissive of them and still expected bipartisan respect and shit, but are now because the "weird" shit is so out there all the time
- "Weird" is simply a more effective word to describe the situation at hand
- Deplorables would have worked fine with the young people who can vote now but couldnt in 2008.
- Kamala and especially Walz are better representations of "not weird" than Hillary was a representation of "not deplorable".
- "Weird" hits them harder, insults them worse, and thus makes them spiral more in a way deplorable didnt
- Deplorable would have worked fine if it wasnt just a one off comment but a sustained campaign message (this one im thinking probably not)
- The Vance effect, he's just that weird.
- People who are tired of Democrats being respectful like weird a lot
I think perhaps grifters just gave it more 'power'; kind of like boomer. A whole bunch of people who make their money complaining about everything under the sun decided to hyperfocus on this and cry about it and gave it a more potent effect.
Also the term deplorable is akin to calling different minority groups criminals; it ascribes crimes to a wide swathe of people and creates a sense of victimization; it's sort of like how today if you criticize Nazis, Republicans will immediately perk up and say 'we're not Nazis!' (an interesting point Vaush once made was that in the past, if you said you hated Nazis, conservatives would've said 'yeah, we hate them too'; but today associate the term Nazis with themselves). Weird on the other hand is to say that they're acting out of the norm, and no one wants to be different; Also incels and many other weird right wing groups aren't completely accepted within conservative circles and no one wants to be associated with them.
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