Stop scolding
I think a simple fact that I’m forced to accept is that the average US voter is tired of progressives. They are tired of people trying to move the social needle; they are tired of the chaos of change; they are tired of being vilified and scolded for not embracing change.
They are tired of seeing things change. They’re tired of pride parades, of drag queens, of non cis-het people expressing themselves. They’re tired of gender roles being challenged. They’re tired of seeing unfamiliar shades of skin everywhere; they’re convinced that there’s an invasion of foreigners.
They want psychological comfort, they want a return to their childhood “normalcy”, they want these troublesome characters to go away, they want their neighborhoods to look the way it did when they were young, they want to be macho men and pretty women, they want to fall back on their stereotypes and have everyone nod in agreement. In other words, they want to “make America great again”, and they’re willing to hire Trump to make it happen.
And to be clear, I think they are wrong, and they harmed themselves gravely with this decision, because they’ve empowered people who will exploit them. I don’t think they realize just how much they’ve been robbed. Their realization will come far too late.