I wrote this on Facebook one evening:

Trump and Musk are deplorable.

Hillary was always right about this: "You know, ... you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it...."

On November 8, 2017, one year after the election, Trump thanked the "deplorables" for his victory

The next morning, I thought, "I should have sent it to the newspaper." So I sent it to the LATimes. They did not print it.