Trump supporters in the DC metro area

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Almost no MAGA hats are seen in DC. I work near the White House and I’d say I see 1 in 1000 people at most wearing one. And usually it’s a pimply-faced slack-jawed teen tourist.

Trumpers are scared to show their views in DC because they’re surrounded by educated people who rightfully think very very poorly of them.
The poor Trumpers, if they exist here, don’t even have the courage to stand up for what they believe in.

Nuff said?

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Anonymous wrote:How Democrats react if you admit you are a Trump supporter:

If I know you’re a trump supporter, I’d do a slow fade and stop socializing with you. That’s it. No finger pointing, no tirade. What’s the point? I’m not going to change your mind. But I now know that you view the world very differently than I do, and you are not someone I would want to be friends with because our fundamental values are too different.

This, from a member of a party that proudly proclaims their "tolerance."
Truth is - you are not tolerant and never have been.
I would never do a "slow fade" to someone I know and socialize with due to the voting choices that person makes.
I am a conservative. Some of my best friends are liberals. We have different views on how to make our country great - but the end goal is the same, in reality.
Gain some perspective, friend.

This has nothing to do with tolerance. I literally see the world differently than you. As with anything else, I choose friends who have similar interests, whether politics or anything else.

From your post, it seems that you were able to find similar interests BEFORE you discovered this person's voting preferences. The bolded parts of your posts are the indicators.

Ok, let me be more specific and spell it out for you. For example, if I am friendly with you because our kids go to the same school and are friends, I will continue to be polite, but will not make an effort to socialize with you outside of school events. Maybe initially, I thought you were nice and seemed like someone I might want to hang out with, so I invited you (and your family) to a bbq, or to get drinks one evening, or whatever. If I find out that you are a trump supporter, I would realize that we just have vastly different views on right and wrong, and how other human beings should be treated, that I couldn’t be friends with you. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue to be pleasant during superficial interactions.

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There are a few openly Trump-supporting families in our school. We will socialize superficially. Our kids will sometimes play together. I am very polite. But these are not friendships I will foster because deep down we just don't have the same core values.

Oh, I’m not polite. If any Trump supporter has the nerve to tell me they support this criminal president, I tell them in no uncertain terms that anyone who chooses hate and corruption is absolutely not someone I have any interest in speaking to. They can roll in their sewer of Fox and rightwing lies on Facebook without me.
If they change their mind and repudiate the GOP, I would love to welcome them back. But I will not let anyone get away with supporting the lies, corruption, and damage to America that this president and his party are doing. Goodbye and good riddance. Trump supporters are not welcome in my life — and they shouldn’t be welcome in the lives of anyone that cares about this country.

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Anonymous wrote:How Democrats react if you admit you are a Trump supporter:

If I know you’re a trump supporter, I’d do a slow fade and stop socializing with you. That’s it. No finger pointing, no tirade. What’s the point? I’m not going to change your mind. But I now know that you view the world very differently than I do, and you are not someone I would want to be friends with because our fundamental values are too different.

This, from a member of a party that proudly proclaims their "tolerance."
Truth is - you are not tolerant and never have been.
I would never do a "slow fade" to someone I know and socialize with due to the voting choices that person makes.
I am a conservative. Some of my best friends are liberals. We have different views on how to make our country great - but the end goal is the same, in reality.
Gain some perspective, friend.

This has nothing to do with tolerance. I literally see the world differently than you. As with anything else, I choose friends who have similar interests, whether politics or anything else.

From your post, it seems that you were able to find similar interests BEFORE you discovered this person's voting preferences. The bolded parts of your posts are the indicators.

Ok, let me be more specific and spell it out for you. For example, if I am friendly with you because our kids go to the same school and are friends, I will continue to be polite, but will not make an effort to socialize with you outside of school events. Maybe initially, I thought you were nice and seemed like someone I might want to hang out with, so I invited you (and your family) to a bbq, or to get drinks one evening, or whatever. If I find out that you are a trump supporter, I would realize that we just have vastly different views on right and wrong, and how other human beings should be treated, that I couldn’t be friends with you. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue to be pleasant during superficial interactions.

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There are a few openly Trump-supporting families in our school. We will socialize superficially. Our kids will sometimes play together. I am very polite. But these are not friendships I will foster because deep down we just don't have the same core values.

Oh, I’m not polite. If any Trump supporter has the nerve to tell me they support this criminal president, I tell them in no uncertain terms that anyone who chooses hate and corruption is absolutely not someone I have any interest in speaking to. They can roll in their sewer of Fox and rightwing lies on Facebook without me.
If they change their mind and repudiate the GOP, I would love to welcome them back. But I will not let anyone get away with supporting the lies, corruption, and damage to America that this president and his party are doing. Goodbye and good riddance. Trump supporters are not welcome in my life — and they shouldn’t be welcome in the lives of anyone that cares about this country.

Republicans in DC are also educated. Support for Trump is probably byissue, and that most Rs would not vote for Hilary (or simply abstain). As to corrupt - have you turned your back on all the corrupt Democrat pols - especially all the pay to play? Let's start with your efforts to oust Bpwser.

[Anonymous]

I don't think you will find many Trump/MAGA supporters but you will find Republicans

I voted for Trump because I am a republican I support Mitch McConnell basically

Under I trump I support

Tax cuts, conservative justices, reduced regulations

I don't support his trade stuff, I don't like his unstable foreign policy,

Personally I think he is a bigot

For 2020 Ds are seriously considering

Medicare for all, tax increases, some crazy Green Deal thing, reparations,

so I'm pretty sure I am going to vote for the lower taxes, less government regulation person again which is most likely Trump

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Anonymous wrote:How Democrats react if you admit you are a Trump supporter:

If I know you’re a trump supporter, I’d do a slow fade and stop socializing with you. That’s it. No finger pointing, no tirade. What’s the point? I’m not going to change your mind. But I now know that you view the world very differently than I do, and you are not someone I would want to be friends with because our fundamental values are too different.

This, from a member of a party that proudly proclaims their "tolerance."
Truth is - you are not tolerant and never have been.
I would never do a "slow fade" to someone I know and socialize with due to the voting choices that person makes.
I am a conservative. Some of my best friends are liberals. We have different views on how to make our country great - but the end goal is the same, in reality.
Gain some perspective, friend.

This has nothing to do with tolerance. I literally see the world differently than you. As with anything else, I choose friends who have similar interests, whether politics or anything else.

From your post, it seems that you were able to find similar interests BEFORE you discovered this person's voting preferences. The bolded parts of your posts are the indicators.

Ok, let me be more specific and spell it out for you. For example, if I am friendly with you because our kids go to the same school and are friends, I will continue to be polite, but will not make an effort to socialize with you outside of school events. Maybe initially, I thought you were nice and seemed like someone I might want to hang out with, so I invited you (and your family) to a bbq, or to get drinks one evening, or whatever. If I find out that you are a trump supporter, I would realize that we just have vastly different views on right and wrong, and how other human beings should be treated, that I couldn’t be friends with you. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue to be pleasant during superficial interactions.

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There are a few openly Trump-supporting families in our school. We will socialize superficially. Our kids will sometimes play together. I am very polite. But these are not friendships I will foster because deep down we just don't have the same core values.

Oh, I’m not polite. If any Trump supporter has the nerve to tell me they support this criminal president, I tell them in no uncertain terms that anyone who chooses hate and corruption is absolutely not someone I have any interest in speaking to. They can roll in their sewer of Fox and rightwing lies on Facebook without me.
If they change their mind and repudiate the GOP, I would love to welcome them back. But I will not let anyone get away with supporting the lies, corruption, and damage to America that this president and his party are doing. Goodbye and good riddance. Trump supporters are not welcome in my life — and they shouldn’t be welcome in the lives of anyone that cares about this country.

Republicans in DC are also educated. Support for Trump is probably byissue, and that most Rs would not vote for Hilary (or simply abstain). As to corrupt - have you turned your back on all the corrupt Democrat pols - especially all the pay to play? Let's start with your efforts to oust Bpwser.

You are hopeless. There is a big difference between local politics and having a president rapidly and rather stupidly dismantle the norms on which we depend on for a stable and democratic society. How would you have felt if Obama did the things he did? And it is going to happen that someone worse will come. Think of it this way: he is lowering the bar and setting the stage for the next corrupt, money-grubbing, wanna-be dictator. That person may be a Democrat or a Republican, but what if it's even worse than that? What if it's someone well-spoken and charismatic and polls higher than 40%?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This isn's a question of who is an R. OP is asking who is a MAGA. Many Rs did not vote for Trump, or did, but hate or are embarrassed by him -- just didn't want a D and hoped for not the worst. None of them are hiding or or afraid to talk about it, particularly with those of us who can distinguish between an R and MAGA. They do avoid the angry folks who can't forgive any Rs who allowed MAGA to happen.

I don't know any R friends or relatives who are MAGA and support the harmful or bizarre behaviors of the current POTUS, except for one who lives in Florida and one who lives in the Rust Belt, and both have always been the type to feel angry about people not like themselves.

Except Trump is,.nominally, the Republivan president. I would never admit to being Republican in the DC area. Dont you remember the vitriol directed to Bush? Democrats thought and said he was the devil . Romney seemed like the most likely bridge builder ever, and they made him out to be a woman hating 1 percenter **, despite his positive governing record in MA. In this area, yes Trump ups the ante, but it's never been safe, open dialogue as a Republican or conservative.

Dont forget Mccain. When he was running for president he was a piece of crap to the media. When he disagreed with Trump, then also died, he was the biggest hero in the world.

I try to not watch news, and I also dont talk politics wth friends and neighbors and family whenever I can possibly help it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you will find many Trump/MAGA supporters but you will find Republicans

I voted for Trump because I am a republican I support Mitch McConnell basically

Under I trump I support

Tax cuts, conservative justices, reduced regulations

I don't support his trade stuff, I don't like his unstable foreign policy,

Personally I think he is a bigot

For 2020 Ds are seriously considering

Medicare for all, tax increases, some crazy Green Deal thing, reparations,

so I'm pretty sure I am going to vote for the lower taxes, less government regulation person again which is most likely Trump

I enjoy the new trade policies. The American gravy train is no longer dumping money into your country's economy. No tariffs don't make sense, but if a foreign country applies them and they pay ridiculous slave labor rates, ignore international patent laws, how do we compete?

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Anonymous wrote:How Democrats react if you admit you are a Trump supporter:

If I know you’re a trump supporter, I’d do a slow fade and stop socializing with you. That’s it. No finger pointing, no tirade. What’s the point? I’m not going to change your mind. But I now know that you view the world very differently than I do, and you are not someone I would want to be friends with because our fundamental values are too different.

This, from a member of a party that proudly proclaims their "tolerance."
Truth is - you are not tolerant and never have been.
I would never do a "slow fade" to someone I know and socialize with due to the voting choices that person makes.
I am a conservative. Some of my best friends are liberals. We have different views on how to make our country great - but the end goal is the same, in reality.
Gain some perspective, friend.

This has nothing to do with tolerance. I literally see the world differently than you. As with anything else, I choose friends who have similar interests, whether politics or anything else.

From your post, it seems that you were able to find similar interests BEFORE you discovered this person's voting preferences. The bolded parts of your posts are the indicators.

Ok, let me be more specific and spell it out for you. For example, if I am friendly with you because our kids go to the same school and are friends, I will continue to be polite, but will not make an effort to socialize with you outside of school events. Maybe initially, I thought you were nice and seemed like someone I might want to hang out with, so I invited you (and your family) to a bbq, or to get drinks one evening, or whatever. If I find out that you are a trump supporter, I would realize that we just have vastly different views on right and wrong, and how other human beings should be treated, that I couldn’t be friends with you. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue to be pleasant during superficial interactions.

+1

There are a few openly Trump-supporting families in our school. We will socialize superficially. Our kids will sometimes play together. I am very polite. But these are not friendships I will foster because deep down we just don't have the same core values.

Oh, I’m not polite. If any Trump supporter has the nerve to tell me they support this criminal president, I tell them in no uncertain terms that anyone who chooses hate and corruption is absolutely not someone I have any interest in speaking to. They can roll in their sewer of Fox and rightwing lies on Facebook without me.
If they change their mind and repudiate the GOP, I would love to welcome them back. But I will not let anyone get away with supporting the lies, corruption, and damage to America that this president and his party are doing. Goodbye and good riddance. Trump supporters are not welcome in my life — and they shouldn’t be welcome in the lives of anyone that cares about this country.

Republicans in DC are also educated. Support for Trump is probably byissue, and that most Rs would not vote for Hilary (or simply abstain). As to corrupt - have you turned your back on all the corrupt Democrat pols - especially all the pay to play? Let's start with your efforts to oust Bpwser.

You are hopeless. There is a big difference between local politics and having a president rapidly and rather stupidly dismantle the norms on which we depend on for a stable and democratic society. How would you have felt if Obama did the things he did? And it is going to happen that someone worse will come. Think of it this way: he is lowering the bar and setting the stage for the next corrupt, money-grubbing, wanna-be dictator. That person may be a Democrat or a Republican, but what if it's even worse than that? What if it's someone well-spoken and charismatic and polls higher than 40%?

Not one single thing done by Bush, Obama, or Trump has directly impacted my life meaningfully one iota. So forgive me if I avoid all the headache of thinking, talking, and dwelling on what guy is in the white house. Following along and being informed of things doesnt mean you have any control over them. But people around here like to feel in control. Relax, stuff always works out. You'll live longer.

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Anonymous wrote:How Democrats react if you admit you are a Trump supporter:

If I know you’re a trump supporter, I’d do a slow fade and stop socializing with you. That’s it. No finger pointing, no tirade. What’s the point? I’m not going to change your mind. But I now know that you view the world very differently than I do, and you are not someone I would want to be friends with because our fundamental values are too different.

This, from a member of a party that proudly proclaims their "tolerance."
Truth is - you are not tolerant and never have been.
I would never do a "slow fade" to someone I know and socialize with due to the voting choices that person makes.
I am a conservative. Some of my best friends are liberals. We have different views on how to make our country great - but the end goal is the same, in reality.
Gain some perspective, friend.

This has nothing to do with tolerance. I literally see the world differently than you. As with anything else, I choose friends who have similar interests, whether politics or anything else.

From your post, it seems that you were able to find similar interests BEFORE you discovered this person's voting preferences. The bolded parts of your posts are the indicators.

Ok, let me be more specific and spell it out for you. For example, if I am friendly with you because our kids go to the same school and are friends, I will continue to be polite, but will not make an effort to socialize with you outside of school events. Maybe initially, I thought you were nice and seemed like someone I might want to hang out with, so I invited you (and your family) to a bbq, or to get drinks one evening, or whatever. If I find out that you are a trump supporter, I would realize that we just have vastly different views on right and wrong, and how other human beings should be treated, that I couldn’t be friends with you. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue to be pleasant during superficial interactions.

+1

There are a few openly Trump-supporting families in our school. We will socialize superficially. Our kids will sometimes play together. I am very polite. But these are not friendships I will foster because deep down we just don't have the same core values.

Oh, I’m not polite. If any Trump supporter has the nerve to tell me they support this criminal president, I tell them in no uncertain terms that anyone who chooses hate and corruption is absolutely not someone I have any interest in speaking to. They can roll in their sewer of Fox and rightwing lies on Facebook without me.
If they change their mind and repudiate the GOP, I would love to welcome them back. But I will not let anyone get away with supporting the lies, corruption, and damage to America that this president and his party are doing. Goodbye and good riddance. Trump supporters are not welcome in my life — and they shouldn’t be welcome in the lives of anyone that cares about this country.

Republicans in DC are also educated. Support for Trump is probably byissue, and that most Rs would not vote for Hilary (or simply abstain). As to corrupt - have you turned your back on all the corrupt Democrat pols - especially all the pay to play? Let's start with your efforts to oust Bpwser.

It is very nice of you to try to engage politely with previous fascist poster.

He's going to end up in jail, for some random violent act.

Good riddance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This isn's a question of who is an R. OP is asking who is a MAGA. Many Rs did not vote for Trump, or did, but hate or are embarrassed by him -- just didn't want a D and hoped for not the worst. None of them are hiding or or afraid to talk about it, particularly with those of us who can distinguish between an R and MAGA. They do avoid the angry folks who can't forgive any Rs who allowed MAGA to happen.

I don't know any R friends or relatives who are MAGA and support the harmful or bizarre behaviors of the current POTUS, except for one who lives in Florida and one who lives in the Rust Belt, and both have always been the type to feel angry about people not like themselves.

Except Trump is,.nominally, the Republivan president. I would never admit to being Republican in the DC area. Dont you remember the vitriol directed to Bush? Democrats thought and said he was the devil . Romney seemed like the most likely bridge builder ever, and they made him out to be a woman hating 1 percenter **, despite his positive governing record in MA. In this area, yes Trump ups the ante, but it's never been safe, open dialogue as a Republican or conservative.

Not true. I’ve had have many R friends over the years. Maybe some teasing back & forth, but nothing like this. MAGA is a different beast.

+1 It has always been more of a contact sport among young Hill staffers, particularly when they are out drinking together, but that is a different political culture, like a pack of puppies fighting. Among the grown ups, the dialoge in this town between Ra nd Ds has always been open and normal. Not so much now when someone claims MAGA status (which is different than being an R).

[Anonymous]

I'm a right-leaning independent. (wrote in a vote for John Kasich)
Sure I have neighbors who are lean very liberal. I Dont care. Dont talk about political stuff with them. Don't need to virtue signal to them. I dont judge them -- judge not lest ye be judged.
Its not political ideas that wreck friendships, its pride and hubris

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Anonymous wrote:How Democrats react if you admit you are a Trump supporter:

If I know you’re a trump supporter, I’d do a slow fade and stop socializing with you. That’s it. No finger pointing, no tirade. What’s the point? I’m not going to change your mind. But I now know that you view the world very differently than I do, and you are not someone I would want to be friends with because our fundamental values are too different.

This, from a member of a party that proudly proclaims their "tolerance."
Truth is - you are not tolerant and never have been.
I would never do a "slow fade" to someone I know and socialize with due to the voting choices that person makes.
I am a conservative. Some of my best friends are liberals. We have different views on how to make our country great - but the end goal is the same, in reality.
Gain some perspective, friend.

This has nothing to do with tolerance. I literally see the world differently than you. As with anything else, I choose friends who have similar interests, whether politics or anything else.

From your post, it seems that you were able to find similar interests BEFORE you discovered this person's voting preferences. The bolded parts of your posts are the indicators.

Ok, let me be more specific and spell it out for you. For example, if I am friendly with you because our kids go to the same school and are friends, I will continue to be polite, but will not make an effort to socialize with you outside of school events. Maybe initially, I thought you were nice and seemed like someone I might want to hang out with, so I invited you (and your family) to a bbq, or to get drinks one evening, or whatever. If I find out that you are a trump supporter, I would realize that we just have vastly different views on right and wrong, and how other human beings should be treated, that I couldn’t be friends with you. Doesn’t mean I won’t continue to be pleasant during superficial interactions.

+1

There are a few openly Trump-supporting families in our school. We will socialize superficially. Our kids will sometimes play together. I am very polite. But these are not friendships I will foster because deep down we just don't have the same core values.

Oh, I’m not polite. If any Trump supporter has the nerve to tell me they support this criminal president, I tell them in no uncertain terms that anyone who chooses hate and corruption is absolutely not someone I have any interest in speaking to. They can roll in their sewer of Fox and rightwing lies on Facebook without me.
If they change their mind and repudiate the GOP, I would love to welcome them back. But I will not let anyone get away with supporting the lies, corruption, and damage to America that this president and his party are doing. Goodbye and good riddance. Trump supporters are not welcome in my life — and they shouldn’t be welcome in the lives of anyone that cares about this country.

Republicans in DC are also educated. Support for Trump is probably byissue, and that most Rs would not vote for Hilary (or simply abstain). As to corrupt - have you turned your back on all the corrupt Democrat pols - especially all the pay to play? Let's start with your efforts to oust Bpwser.

It is very nice of you to try to engage politely with previous fascist poster.

He's going to end up in jail, for some random violent act.

Good riddance.

Yup. Clear cut case of TDS. It will rot someone from the inside out! Remember Yoda's quote.

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Anonymous wrote:My best friend’s sister is very very liberal, she cried when trump won. Her husband is a trump supporter

Wonder how that marriage has been fairing.

they are very happy. I think most women want manly men and he’s very manly . She’d probablu be miserable with a liberal guy. They even have trump hats at their place

I voted for Trump and my spouse for Clinton. My husbands biggest concern was Russia. We haven't even discussed the Mueller report because I can tell he feels a bit snookered. He disliked Hillary too but thought Trump might be corrupt on another level. Now he seems to realize that he got had. He didn't think it was possible that the entire Russia collusion thing would completely fall apart. I never believed it because to me it simply didn't make sense that Trump would ruin is entire career to run for president and get in bed with Russia. It he didn't. But my husband will never like Trump. But he also knows Hillary is a dirtball.

Your husband was right to be concerned about Russia, and the convictions show it. You can choose to thread the needle as narrowly as you want to claim this is not a problem, but Russia is a problem.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Trump and I live in Takoma Park.

[Anonymous]

I am absolutely NOT a Trump supporter.

I am a Fundamentalist Christian and a social conservative.

I live in MOCO and am registered independent because:

1. I disagree with Republicans on significant issues (the environment, gun control, regulation, tax cuts). I kept hoping a Democrat would run who wasn't rabidly pro-choice (something that was slightly less inconceivable decades ago, when I moved here, than it is today).

2. Democrats here support tolerance for everyone besides Republicans/conservatives. The hatred I heard expressed around me as I kep quiet during political discussions was extreme. I did not want to have to identify myself publicly at the polls as a Republican to vote in the primaries.

I really wish Maryland had open primaries. As it is, while I can't ever support Trump, neither can I support any of the Democratic candidates who seem to be running as far to the left as they can, as fast as they can. Unfortunately, as a registered independent, I'm disenfranchised during the primaries leaving me with candidates on both sides that are growing more partisan and less appealing to choose between in the general election.

At this point I'm thinking that I will probably change my registration from Independent to Republican, so that I can vote for a candidate that is more of the traditional Republican. I do not consider Trump a Republican. Nor do I consider any of the Senators and Representatives who supported him Republicans. I think they sacrificed this country for political expediency, because of their fear of the primaries. I intend to vote against anyone who protected him and supported his lunacy. I hope all of those fleeing the current party will either form a new party that I can join or reconsider and rejoin the Republican party so that we can return it to sanity.

To my Democratic neighbors:

1. I have had countless interactions with Democrats who feel that since they want to help people and support positions they feel will help people, they conclude that anyone who disagrees with their position is doing so because they hate the population in question. While I can't speak for others, I can say that my political opinions are in no way shaped by hatred. I either think there are better ways to help the population in question and/or think that other groups needs should be considered as well. Rather than condemning me for being cruel, please be willing to listen to my viewpoint.

2. I worry about the tendency towards extremism in both parties. Long before Trump, when I studied history I formed the opinion that politics seemed more like a loop than a linear spectrum. On the far right you had fascism. On the far left you had a Communist Dictatorship. Either way led to Totalitarianism.

Before you jump all over me, I'm not comparing any of the current Democrats to Stalin or Pol Pot. I think they're a long way off. However, I think that reacting to Trump's extremism is pushing them further from the middle. The discussions here about not being able to befriend a Trump supporter or firing someone have me worried. The worst injustices in humanity seem to occur when we stop seeing each other as people much like ourselves and instead start classifying people as "other".

As for the Republicans, I feel they're already on dangerous ground. Trump scared me during the campaign when he talked of a Muslim registry. What terrifies me even more is that the historical echoes weren't enough for America to stop his candidacy there. I feel like America is forgetting history, which can be disastrous.