In 1774, the elite of London was stuck in the vice of snobbery. They foolishly sought to bolster their own esteem by robbing others of theirs.
One such manifestation was the labeling of the Maccaroni Club. These were the outsiders who strayed from the fashion orthodoxy. That derogatory term was usually reserved for the European class. It wasn't a real club, but rather a derrogatory designation. Eventually, the european wigs which high society men wore, were called Maccaroni wigs. But a 'dandy' was known as an effeminate man who tried to impress others with his obnoxious apparel and behavior.
This same British society also devised an other fictional caricature they referred to as Yankee Doodle. A folk song was composed about him where he tried to elevate himself to the Maccaroni Club.
In 1775, the British soldiers who occupied Boston, would occasionally sing the folk song... 'Yankee doodle'. Yankee was a term the British had coined referring to those in North american colonies. Doodle was a term denoting obnoxious singing, as an intoxicated fellow might exhibit.
So when the British soldiers began singing;
Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
When the British were roundly defeated in early battles outside Boston, they came limping back to Boston along with their casualties. It is said that the towns people of Boston began to come out to the streets & hum the same melody of Yankee Doodle, as a taunt towards the defeated Brits.
French society was every bit as bigoted as the British. When our most noted scientist, Ben Franklin, served as Ambassador to the Court of King Louis, Franklin often wore a raccoon skin hat while strolling the streets of Paris. He had decided to play up the ignorant notion, even though all of Europe respected Franklin for his great achievements.
What's ironic about today's social justice warriors, is that they have failed to call for the term 'Yankee' to be discontinued in society. Yankee was invented as a very derogatory ethnic slam on our continental identity. The fact that we rallied to the term doesn't seem to dissuade them when it comes to other ethnic labels.
And now we come to the place where Hillary Clinton made her ill-fated attack on the character of those who supported her political foe. Clinton quickly regretted her statements and she paid a big price for her folly.
This is quite similar to Mitt Romney's 47% statement, also made at a fundraising event in his ill-fated 2012 campaign.
We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that.
And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
This insult of the voters, spoken before a crowd of homosexual activists, so outraged many principled conservatives that they immediately wore the term 'deplorable' as a badge of honor.