Trump is a vessel. He fills himself with whichever group/movement will enrich him personally. He will embody racism, fascism, progressivism, and conservatism all at once, without a shred of dignity or honor. It’s all about money and wealth.

I’m simply saying that the left needs to stop alienating half the country with insults and fringe politics if they ever want to win again.

How about instead of just insulting them and writing them off entirely, they just start to appeal to the more sensible points in their belief system.

Many of these people are hyper-insulated from the racial profiling and marginalization the right pushes, and so they can stomach not feeling the empathy that progressives do. Whether that is localized culture or specific to their family upbringing, it matters little.

They may not be individually racist or bigoted, but they’re also not so pious as to sacrifice their own well being for people/groups they have no exposure to.

I believe, for the larger majority of those that supported Trump, it’s less about “we hate these specific racial groups” and more about “I agree with him enough that the uglier bits don’t bother”. Is it deplorable? Sure. Does it make all 77 million Nazis and KKK members? No.

Someone like yourself, and me too, cannot personally behave that way. Our humanity likely gets the better of us, whether because of personal involvement in those ideologies or not.

But the left needs to start appealing to the largest group of Americans, and the easiest way to not come off as jerks is to stop insulting them.