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Good and Evil
An Explanation of the Trumpers Who Don’t Seem So Bad
How ‘Hell’s cuckoo clock’ makes Trumpers tick
Think of the people you have known for a long time who turned out to be Trumpers. You know who I mean.
These people have broken your heart.
You’ve lost sleep trying to comprehend how they could always seem like pretty OK people, yet here they are, a Trump sign in their yards and a red hat on their heads.
This is an American experience every non-Trumper has had to face for the better part of the last decade. It’s been painful and confusing.
Maybe it’s a family member or someone you go to church with or work with. Maybe it’s a person you respected for having done some pretty good deeds in the past.
I’ve been trying to understand the nature of good and evil since around 1976 or so, which is when I first read Anne Frank’s diary.
Hitler and the Holocaust are what come to mind when a non-Trumper tries to explain what today feels like. Germany in the 1930s was a time when ordinary decent people suddenly lost their flipping minds and started saying and doing unimaginably vile and evil things. History is full of other examples.
