Am I supposed to disagree with the assertion that Trump supporters are pieces of shit?
I dunno, do you;
1) Believe that people who voted for Trump in 2016 and deeply regret it today are the same group as people who proudly defend everything he stands for today, and should be treated the same way?
and
2) Do you believe the continued trajectory of extreme partisanship where team blue and team red consider the other team an irredeemable piece of shit at a fundamental level with nothing in common and that you can never give any quarter or compromise to because they barely even count as human makes the political landscape better or worse?
1) Trump was a known piece of shit in 2016. They voted for that piece of shit. Their regrets kinda bounce off me. Sure, good for them but am I to believe they won’t pull this shit again?
Irredeemable? No. Tarnished? Yes.
2) I can still be polite to a tarnished piece of shit.
In my experience, 2016 Trump voters fall into a few categories.
1. Genuine racists
2. Lifelong and/or single issue Republican voters (abortion, good for Israel, etc)
3. People that do whatever their parents tell them and literally do not engage with politics at all (one of whom wasn't even aware of the proposed "build the wall" platform)
4. Accelerationists that genuinely want America as it is now to burn to the ground in hopes of it coming back stronger
5. People that thought it would be funny, including one dumbass that was moving to Japan in early 2017 anyway and figured he could watch the circus from the other side of the world.
6. Peer-pressured army dudes incapable of thinking for themselves.
It's good to remember we're talking about 63 million people here. When you got a number like that, things are going to be more complicated than just throwing them all into the same basket.
My brother-in-law voted Trump in 2016 and plans to do so again in 2020. He also marched for George Floyd and is in favor of defunding the police. No, I don't get it either, but I can't imagine people with that kind of cognitive dissonance are as rare as a lot of people think.