Who We Are

There is a difference between Republicans and Trump supporters. Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush: These are Republicans. You voted for them because of your beliefs on taxes, guns, small government, nationalism, or a slew of other ideological issues. As much as I will debate you on many of these issues, there is an underlying civic responsibility that conjoins us. We all want what’s best for our country, we just disagree on how to achieve it. At the end of the day we manage to live just fine together in a functional society and nation.

This is not the Trump supporter. Trump supporters in 2024 are civically irresponsible. They are anti-intellectual. They are not serious. They are Jokers. They are Rebels. They want it their way or no way at all. They want to see the other side squirm and squeal. They are sadistic and anarchical. They are impostional and extreme. They are WEIRD.

Myself and millions of others haven’t developed this opinion over eight years out of thin air. It’s a direct response to the consistent words and actions of the people involved in the Trump movement, from the top down. We don’t want to come to this conclusion, but there is no other conclusion to draw.

The important message I’d like to relay, and I implore all Democrats to do the same, is that if you are a Republican under the definition we know and have known our entire lives, our good faith and support is here to give, and it always will be. This is the silver-lining to the past eight years. When we can truly bring the Trump train to a stop, we will come out on the other end with an evolved sense of respect and political community between who Republicans and Democrats really are:

Good people.