You missed the point entirely, therby illustrating my point.
I agree completely that Trump is a repulsive individual. What I am saying is that Democrats can't let this anger against Trump to blind them from the fact that they are not reaching and resonating with almost 50% of the population.
Why? because bringing the country together is the only rational way forward. They need to get to understand the perspectives of - not Trump's base, but - those more moderate conservatives that they don't reach.
The GOP need to do this too. A lot of soul searching needed for both sides...
Biden at least gets this. I just don't know if he has anywhere near the political capital, capabilites and charisma to pull it off. By comparison, it is very obvious Trump does not.
When is anger unjustified? When is it justified? These are questions i've found that america and the world in general refuse to ask let alone answer.
If people who look like you were regularly killed by cops and an entire political party fought to keep it happening for generations. Would you define the anger over that to be justified or unjustified?
If people who were your gender regularly were raped while many of the rapists who did it were protected by and promoted by that same political party. Would you define the anger over that to be justified or unjustified?
If people of your same sexuality were treated like less than human by the same political party and that political party fought against your rights traditionally. Would you define the anger over that to be justified or unjustified?
As you can see. There's a pattern here. Meaning it would be better and more efficient for me to just list the categories of people said political party has attacked historically, currently are attacking and by all accounts will continue to attack in the future. African americans, mexicans, mexican americans, asians, asian americans, jewish people, atheists, buddists, muslims, women in general, the lgbtq community, the poor, the middle class, veterans, the disabled, the elderly, latinos, schools, homeless shelters, mental health, healthcare, consumer rights advocates, unions, science, scientists, the lgbtq community, native americans, indians, indian americans and so on.
At one point, another or consistently. The same political party has, are and/or will attack members of those groups. So. I ask again. When is anger justified? When is anger unjustified?
The reason democrats aren't reaching and resonating with almost 50% of the population is because 50% of the population just flat out doesn't want to listen. Wants very badly to continue to dismiss and ignore large swathes of history. The history i just needed to point out.
To put things in further perspective. That political party has attacked all those groups of people but not all those groups of people have attacked that political party. Defense is not an attack. And most of those groups have been on the defense from those groups since day one.
So no. Both sides are not fine people.