Yes, Supporting Trump Makes You a Bad Person

Recently I was asked if I would stop being friends with someone because they liked, supported, or voted for Trump. It was a no-brainer. The answer was a resounding yes.

The shock flashed across people’s faces. I was told that political beliefs are nothing to end a friendship over, that I’m not always right, that people are allowed to disagree. Supporting Trump does not mean that someone is a bad person.

No, disagreeing with me does not make you a bad person. Being a Republican does not make you a bad person. What does make you a bad person is accepting the ways of the leader of the newest Russian colony, Donald J. Trump.

You are likely to have heard this all already, but I’ll reiterate for the people in the back. Trump mocked the disabled; promised to and has implemented a ban against Muslims (but not from the countries where he does businesss); talked about how he grabs women by the pussy without their permission; tweets against our free press; tweets against our judicial system; tweets against random celebrities; says things like “my African-American over here”; tells his staff they have to “dress like women”; appointed a white nationalist to the National Security Council; nominated a Putin lackey for Secretary of State; nominated one of his biggest donors for Secretary of Education; nominated a known racist for Attorney General; nominated a man who created a “facism forever” club to the Supreme Court; shares fake news on his Facebook page; claims that any negative poll about him is ‘fake news’; disparages members of Congress; can’t string a coherent sentence together; had his press security straight up lie to the press; refuses to release his tax returns; is cozy with Putin; fired the Attroney General for disagreeing with him; said he would date his daughter; pissed off the prime minister of Australia; pissed off the president of Mexico; implemented the Global Gag Rule; refuses to divest from his businesses; practiced low-level Holocaust denial by refusing to mention Jews in his Holocaust Remembrance Day statement; won’t take in Muslim refugees but prioritizes Christian ones; said that the country needs to go to “total hell” so we can go back to “when we were great”; and doesn’t seem to understand how to use quotation marks.

Accepting these things does not make you a Republican, or a conservative, or “allowed to disagree, you intolerant liberal!” Accepting this things makes you a backwards, misogynist, intolerant, Islamophobic racist.

No, accepting Muslim bans and demeaning blacks and degrading women and the LGBT+ community, believing minorities to be inferior, is not an opinion. Accepting the dehumanization of millions is not a valid opinion.

I do not have to accept a racist worldview. I do not have to “try and understand” it. Even if so many Trump voters don’t consider themselves racist, their vote was. Being okay with racism is the same thing as being racist.

And, if other supporters simply didn’t know, by some miracle, how racist he was, shame on them. They are willfully ignorant, and that is just as reprehensible.

This election cycle has brought the fringes to the front. Suddenly, we are supposed to accept and peacefully argue with people like Richard Spencer and Twitter trolls with #MAGA and a Pepe in their bios. Suddenly, Jeff Sessions is a viable candidate for Attorney General. Suddenly, accepting Chrisitan refugees over Muslim ones is okay. Suddenly, it’s actually a conversation whether Jews are people. Suddenly, people are debating whether it’s okay to punch Nazis (by the way, America became a world super power because we punched Nazis). Suddenly, we have to call Nazis by the politically correct term of ‘white nationalist’ while they yell at liberals for being snowflakes.

I refuse to accept racism as a valid opinion. I will not consider those who dehumanize others as “people with a different opinion”.

So yes, supporting Trump makes you a bad person. Accepting racism makes you a bad person. Allowing racism makes you a bad person.

And that’s that.

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