Trump supporters are evil, not stupid.

Evil is the lack of faith. If a person cannot believe in the worth of others. If they cannot tolerate what is not immediately understood from others. If they cannot envision a possible world where working with others may create plenty for all. There you have Evil. Strip away these basic notions from a person and their behaviors settle into seeing the different as an enemy, believing another's gain is definitionally your loss, and acting as if everyone else is as narrow and grasping as you. Evil is not created separate from the good, it is the remainder of us when stripped of empathy, curiosity and hope. The historical roots are explored in Walking back to Pharaoh.

I do not pretend this is an original thought, but as it is in a Substack newsletter, not a dissertation, commenters are left to hash any archaeology. However, it leads me into how the Left is too circumspect regarding MAGA supporters writ large. Outside of a cousin at Thanksgiving dinner perhaps, the tendency is to pathologize them as rural, less educated, or from less diverse communities who would not be MAGA if knowing all the facts. Set aside this does not cover billionaires supporting Trump, it is the general leftist belief: MAGA supporters know not what they do. We just need to carefully talk to and about them, as one might a person standing on a high ledge, and they would change. Hence the feeling everyone has that the left believes MAGA supporters are stupid.