Their continued support for Trump isn’t just some small mistake they made, like picking up a zucchini instead of a cucumber at the market. No, their Trump support is a value statement, one that turns on the denial of other people’s rights to freedom, equality and safe existence. How can a person appeal to me and to that person simultaneously and do so with integrity and honor? At the same time, transformational change sounds good and smart in theory, but it simply isn’t most Trump-resisting Americans’ most urgent concern. In this cycle, it is hard to sell reorganizing the whole country to people who are simply afraid that Trump is going to destroy the whole country.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2020 01:30 UTC