Generally speaking, getting emotional about politics is a dangerous and stupid thing. We have seen what the hatred of Donald Trump did to a lot of otherwise normal and rational people. They conjured up fantasies about Trump that took them into some very dark places, and inspired them to become very bad people who lied, created hoaxes, and turned our justice system upside-down.
I can name any number of good people who have endorsed very bad things in their desperate desire to destroy Donald Trump. For many, the reaction was based as much on aesthetics as policy or actions. Trump is crude, offensive, hyperbolic, unlawyerly. He is certainly not what people think of when they say “Presidential.”
Ok. Whatever. I had that reaction. So much so that in 2016 I refrained from voting for him–a luxury I had because, living in Minnesota, my vote in the presidential election meant as much as…
