The next day Clinton issued a qualified retraction, saying she regretted the specificity of the "half" estimate that has so aggrieved those who presumably think of themselves in the non-deplorable half. "What's really deplorable is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called 'alt-right' movement to run his campaign," she went on, "and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values."