Comparing Republicans to Slytherin is completely uncalled for. Not every member of Slytherin is evil scum.
Yes they are.
Even the "good" Slytherins are evil.
Severus Snape flat out admitted he wanted to arrange the death of the his childhood rival and his son so he could get a second chance with the woman he loved.
Horace Slughorn enabled the rise of Lord Voldemort.
There are no good Slytherins.
Personally, as much as I disagree with Republicans and Trump, I don't think it's fair to go ahead and call them all "Slytherins". Part of the issue is that as Americans we don't even try to understand where others are coming from, and I don't think this contributes to the solution
I used to try pretty hard to see things from others' points of view. (And still do, with people who don't flag themselves as Trump cultists.) And I can see where someone reasonable
would think that the corruption and inhumanity of America's "pre-Trump" establishment was unconscionable. That what was needed
was an outsider. That someone who cuts through the formal, mostly pointless BS, while being something of a reactionary on social values could be seen as a good thing by perfectly decent people.
But to really think of Donald Trump as some sort of seriously plausible agent for positive change would take looking through a very warped glass to begin with. And that was
before we had a chance to actually see him in office. Now? With everything we've seen from him over the last four years? Oh no. There is no excuse. None. Nada. Zilch.
I get that many Republicans don't think they're the bad guys.
They're wrong. If they can't even admit
they made a mistake with a guy who let a pandemic that's killing hundred of thousands of Americans spread for stupidly political reasons, who every day launches corrosive attacks on the very system of government he has
sworn to uphold? If they instead excuse and even cheer him on?
Where they're coming from is pretty clear, and it's not a place that can be met halfway.
There's is likely no solution available that will involve Republican participation. There is no "meeting of the minds" with people whose demonstrated position is that
they do not participate in good faith. We simply have to endure and preserve despite their best efforts.
