'Stupid, guilty, regretful': How to deal with people 'embarrassed' they voted for Trump

After nearly a month of the president ruling by force rather than persuasion, you can still find pundits who believe that the Democrats, if they are going to save the republic, must be more than anti-Trump. Staci White This 49-year-old Omaha, Nebraska, resident voted for Donald Trump, because, she said, she “wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into the US.” By “safer borders,” she said she had believed Trump meant “‘let’s stop the drugs from coming into the country.’” “I didn’t know he was going to start raiding places,” she said. Todd Winant told the Journal he had been a supporter of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s independent presidential campaign, but moved over to Trump, and is now “thrilled.” As evidence, he cited talks to “end the war in Ukraine,” Trump’s “immigration crackdown” and his “decision to put Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman now the country’s intelligence chief, in his cabinet.” “My whole nervous system relaxed,” Winant said. The big tell that Winant does not think for himself, indeed, is so immersed in rightwing media that, for him, fact and fiction are now indistinguishable, was this: He said that Trump has “done more in less than a month than most presidents have done in their whole term.” This is worship for the god-emperor, straight from the mouth of Sean Hannity or some other prime-time pundit, and a desire to overlook anything, no matter how evil – like the fact that planes are falling out of the sky due to Trump’s aggression toward air-traffic controllers. Anderson said she feels “stupid, guilty, regretful — embarrassed,” because she’s “horrified by Trump’s focus on deportations” and by his “‘ridiculous’ flashy moves.” This, after saying that she was drawn to Kennedy’s campaign and its “focus on getting toxins out of food.” First, this is Trump we’re talking about.