Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is continuing Hillary Clinton’s legacy of trashing Trump supporters as racist enablers, most recently at a Latino forum held in South Carolina’s Lowcountry on Tuesday.

“Anyone who supported this president is at best looking the other way on racism, at best,” Buttigieg told the small group that gathered at an Okatie restaurant.

The comment is drawing comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s infamous description of Trump supporters in the 2016 election as racist “deplorables.”

Ironically, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana admitted he’s depending on the people he offended to accomplish his big plans, which include overhauling the nation’s healthcare system, imposing more gun laws, reversing the country’s climate and energy agendas, and revamping the immigration system to create more citizens.

“We have a strong American majority on immigration, health care, on raising wages, on supporting workers, on gun safety, things where Democrats used to be on the defense there’s an American majority if we can keep it,” he said. “Engaging that majority helps us then in the larger project uniting the American people.”

Despite Buttigieg’s claim that Trump supporters are “at best” borderline racist, his track record of poor relations with the black community in South Bend, and zero percent support from black voters in South Carolina, he told Latinos in Lowcountry’s he’s the perfect person to unite the country.

“I think part of the presidency is to set the tone, the moral tone for the country,” he lectured, according to WSAV. “Honestly, a lot of it is in what you don’t do. More than we realized we have counted on the president not to act in certain harmful ways or racist ways.”

The 37-year-old insisted Republicans are only interested in division, while “the reverse would be true” in a Buttigieg presidency.

“That shows that the division is more useful to them than the achievement would be,” he said. “For my White House, the reverse would be true. We are depending on a unified base.”

That base, he said, would rely on building a coalition from the folks President Trump has allegedly maligned to push through policies like immigration reform and others.

“ … We need to build a sense of solidarity of different people who have different experiences of exclusion but knits them together in the coalition,” he said.

“It turns out that’s most Americans. Just about everybody has been insulted by this president,” Buttigieg said. “That constitutes a big majority. There aren’t a lot of folks left who haven’t been insulted by him.”

Buttigieg’s allegations that Trump supporters are “looking the other way on racism, at best,” will undoubtedly draw scorn from MAGA country, which includes most of South Carolina. Trump won the state with nearly 55 percent of the vote in 2016.

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There’s also a lot of Latinos and blacks across the country that support the president.

“In the 2020 election, Trump seems likely to get between 25%-30% of the Latino vote. A recent poll by Telemundo found that 1 in 4 American Latinos would vote to re-elect him,” USA Today reports. “In 2016, according to exit polls, Trump got 28% of the Latino vote. He did better than Sen. Bob Dole, who got 21% of the Latino vote in 1996, and Sen. Mitt Romney, who got 27% in 2012.”

Fox News also highlighted Trump’s surging support among black voters just two days ago:

Two polls, one by Emerson College and one from Rasmussen, put black support for Trump at or above 34 percent. Those soundings so alarmed Trump critics that a horrified CNN host described the two polls as “fake” and sarcastically suggested that only Kanye West and other black Trump surrogates had been surveyed.

The Emerson poll showed 34.5 percent of black registered voters supported the president, up from 17.8 percent a month earlier. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 8.3 points. Rasmussen showed the president with 34 percent approval from blacks.

Buttigieg, meanwhile, isn’t doing so well with black voters, in The Palmentto State or elsewhere.

The most recent Quinnipiac University poll released in November showed 0 percent plan to vote for him in the 2020 Democratic primary, a statistic that’s remained unchanged since Buttigieg launched his campaign in April, The American Mirror reports.