It's more subtle than hate, I think. When I think about the Trump voters in my life, they don't hate anyone, per se. They think that White Man is the standard bearer for a reason, and that all other groups exist in America at their pleasure. One could make an argument that that's a form of hate, but it's not classical hate. It's a form of the thought that humanity isn't universal, and America (and the world) has been fighting that demon since the Constitution was adopted. Let's not forget (most people aren't even aware) that the reason Democrats haven't had the last four Presidencies now is that they lost the Electoral College, WHICH WAS CREATED SO THAT SLAVE STATES WOULD RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION. It wasn't created to protect "small" states as you often hear repeated in the media. Rhode Island is pretty fuckin' small, and they were on board with direct voting. Slave states needed over representation as a precondition to ratification so that we wouldn't always have a Northern President. The over representation they had in the House (via slaves counting as 3/5 of a person) still wasn't enough to guarantee that the President wouldn't always be from a Free State. So they came up with the two extra votes as a way to even out the voting between states. Slavery isn't dead, and we continue to let this vestige oppress us, the real moral majority. We need an amendment to rectify this. And we need to stop the PC bullshit about "small" states when we mean "slave" states. It's hurtful to our existence.

My position is evolving every day at this point. And believe it or not, I'm not trying to "win" I'm trying to dissuade some of the blinkered terror that comes up whenever a learned scholar invokes Hitler, because invoking Hitler does not improve discourse.

Hate and xenophobia, sure. But what kind of hate? Xenophobia why? And "main" is a tough allegation to make because most Trump voters don't know any Muslims, let alone Syrian refugees.

I worry that there's a tendency on the Left to say "they hate our Freedoms" and move on as if they've somehow parsed the main argument and don't have to think about it anymore. I mean, I have a high suspicion that I wouldn't like to see the voting results of Lawrenceburg, KY, yet I enjoy Wild Turkey rather a lot. There has to be a reason normal humans would vote Trump because I can't accept that half the country is rabid psychopaths.

I said it earlier today and I'll say it again: a disinterested executive isn't the end of the world for the executive branch. Bush II was disinterested. Reagan was demonstrably senile for the last two-three years. But Trump has never existed in the structure he's about to exist in and while I have no doubts that the machinery surrounding him has every intent to Make America Gasp Again, they're going to have to do it at the behest of a man who takes selfies with taco salads.

I dunno. Everybody on the Left is seeing Triumph of the Will. I think it'll be a little too Weekend at Bernie's to get that grim that quick.