If you vote for Trump, then screw you

[chenille]

@MikeBravoRomeo

Maybe if liberal writers spoke of Trump supporters with just the slightest hint of respect and understanding those people wouldn’t be supporting Trump.

Say, something like this?

@Hillary Clinton

But the other basket – and I know this because I see friends from all over America here – I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

But that gets overlooked because she also called the white supremacist half, with total accuracy, deplorable. So apparently respect doesn’t count unless you are actually respecting the core values of racism, xenophobia, and all other sorts of ignorance. And of course any respect for that is patronizing, which is itself disrespectful.

So congratulations, you now have a movement that’s made itself so horrible it can’t be treated with anything but contempt, and now get to try and blame people who won’t make excuses for it. Like the KKK, which just happens to support Trump, not that that’s a reason for introspection or anything.