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There is an element of naive optimism at work here. As well as the pretense that all politics are void of morality. Political disagreements are often moral disagreements. In the case of voting for Trump vs. anti-Trump, it is fundamentally a moral disagreement. https://twitter.com/kmanguward/status/1281590765215526914
The problem with being "basically good" is that our moral ledgers aren't balanced by the count of good actions and bad. If you volunteer at the soup kitchen, feed the hungry, mentor a child in need, but sometimes eat your neighbors, you're not scored 3-1, basically good.
And "moral monsters" is hyperbolic to begin with. An attempt to, at the start, make a judgement clownish. There are few Trump supporters who are not morally compromised. Those few who are not are those who somehow, some way, have literally no idea what's going on but like him.
If they have any knowledge of his actions these last for years but still support him? They're morally compromised. There is something wrong with the compass that points them towards right and away from wrong.
Maybe their ledger has a count of 90-1, and Trump support is the one thing they've done wrong. But we're not counting rows on a sheet for good and evil here. We're talking about the embrace of a dangerous man that has already mismanaged his way to 100,000+ needless deaths.
He's taken the most vile, racist, xenophobic steps against legal and illegal immigrants. Steps where the cruelty itself is performative. He's threatened political rivals and asked they be imprisoned or in some cases, accused them of crimes where the death penalty applies.
He's cozied up to dictators with a combined tens of millions of murders on their hands. Some very public and recent. He calls them friend. He's pardoned war criminals and persecuted war heroes. He's worked to keep free those who have betrayed our nation.
What do you call someone who supports another four years of those kinds of outcomes? Are those "political disagreements" without any moral flavor of any kind? As though we're debating 35% top tax bracket vs. 37%?
Of course not. And given all those things which Trump is responsible for, you have to ask why the support remains to begin with. What do those voters have in common with Trump that leads them to continue their support?
So, sorry, but I'm not jumping on the "Can't we all just get along and agree to disagree? We all have a right to our opinion" wagon. That's not unity. That's corruption. They can apologize and recant support and we'll find a way forward. Otherwise? No thank you.
The TLDR; You can't support evil without being stained by it.
