Losing Respect for Trump Supporters

To answer the question at left, I wouldn’t say “all” respect.

Trump supporters have profound intellectual and moral defects, and so I’m saddened to learn that an acquaintance lives in that space.

But we all have defects, just as we all have virtues.

I’m also sensitive to the fact that, to a large degree, a great deal of the way we see the world around us is out of our control; it appears that our brains are somehow “wired” in certain ways that force us to interpret certain signals in pre-scripted ways.  At this point, science believes that epigenetics plays a huge role here.

Just as we don’t hate people for being left-handed, or red-headed, or gay, it’s not right to hate Trump supporters for their inability to process the world the way most of us do.