What is your opinion on Republicans who support Donald Trump?

[R.P. McM]

Anybody who supports Trump is questionable. I view them as the same sort of people who would have supported Hitler because Hitler was a "strongman", "the economy", blamed all problems on ethnic minorities instead of their own foolish choices, and put nationalism and making America/Germany great again over simple morality and common decency.

They're the same personality types, we shouldn't deny that they're capable of perpetrating comparable crimes under similar circumstances. Authoritarians are tribalist animals disguised as human beings. 

[R.P. McM]

Regardless - It's quite obvious at this point that "President Trump" will go down as a gigantic black eye in the USA's history.

This is really not the same as Reagan, the Bushes, or what Romney/McCain would've done, we've really entered a whole new level of evil/incompetence.

It's not the same, but that's what happens when you cry wolf, sadly.

Unfortunately, the conduct of the GOP since Gingrich's speakership has been absolutely disgusting, disastrous, and now, borderline treasonous. There's just nothing nice you can say about a party that is completely unprincipled, unhinged, belligerent, and buffoonish.

[R.P. McM]

I don't support Trump, but I understand why other Republicans do.

So why do they support a bully, tyrant, liar, conman who is about to be impeached?

I mentioned it earlier: Democrats are not any better.

People disagree about when life begins, but at a certain point in the pregnancy the fetus is objectively a person.  Yet many Democrats, including presidential candidates, think it's okay to rip those babies into pieces.  This is evil and needs to be called out.

I know this makes you feel better, but like most things emanating from the contemporary right, it's unmitigated bullsh!+. Democratic-leaning voters couldn't even stomach Hillary Clinton, to say nothing of a racist p***y-grabber who trafficked in conspiracy theories and political violence. Unfortunately, I have to conclude that anyone who would vote for the latter is trash, because I have actual values. I just think you need to accept that the mask has fallen, we've seen who you folks are, we can never unsee it, and now the prospects of us respecting you or trying to make nice are essentially nil.

[R.P. McM]

I don't support Trump, but I understand why other Republicans do.

So why do they support a bully, tyrant, liar, conman who is about to be impeached?

I mentioned it earlier: Democrats are not any better.

People disagree about when life begins, but at a certain point in the pregnancy the fetus is objectively a person.  Yet many Democrats, including presidential candidates, think it's okay to rip those babies into pieces.  This is evil and needs to be called out.

I know this makes you feel better, but like most things emanating from the contemporary right, it's unmitigated bullsh!+. Democratic-leaning voters couldn't even stomach Hillary Clinton, to say nothing of a racist p***y-grabber who encouraged political violence. Unfortunately, I have to conclude that anyone who would vote for the latter is trash, because I have actually values. 

Do you think that ripping apart viable babies is okay?  Because if you do, you have no moral standing to criticize anyone.

Exactly — because I support a position held by ~60% of the country, I have no moral standing, and you proto-fascists are free to abrogate the bedrock laws and norms that have enabled us to coexist as a political community for more than two centuries.   

[R.P. McM]

I don't support Trump, but I understand why other Republicans do.

So why do they support a bully, tyrant, liar, conman who is about to be impeached?

I mentioned it earlier: Democrats are not any better.

People disagree about when life begins, but at a certain point in the pregnancy the fetus is objectively a person.  Yet many Democrats, including presidential candidates, think it's okay to rip those babies into pieces.  This is evil and needs to be called out.

I know this makes you feel better, but like most things emanating from the contemporary right, it's unmitigated bullsh!+. Democratic-leaning voters couldn't even stomach Hillary Clinton, to say nothing of a racist p***y-grabber who encouraged political violence. Unfortunately, I have to conclude that anyone who would vote for the latter is trash, because I have actually values.  

Do you think that ripping apart viable babies is okay?  Because if you do, you have no moral standing to criticize anyone.

Exactly — because I support a position held by ~60% of the country, I have no moral standing, and you proto-fascists are free to abrogate the bedrock laws and norms that have enabled us to coexist as a political community for more than two centuries.  

I specified viable babies.  I hope you have enough of a heart to oppose killing them.  If you don't, then you have no moral standing to criticize Trump or his supporters.

No, I do, because abortion is a nuanced issue that inspires widespread disagreement. So embracing a stance at odds with your own doesn't make me a monster — it's a normal political disagreement. But we can't disagree about whether a president can extort a foreign power to aid his reelection bid using taxpayer funds. To excuse such behavior is to weaponize foreign interests against one's domestic opposition, at which point, we can no longer harmoniously coexist. And respectfully debate contentious topics such as abortion. Your little pet issue — which I don't actually believe is nearly as salient to Trump voters as white power! — isn't worth transforming the country into a banana republic.