My Apology to Trumpers

How I have misjudged your morality

A very apologetic Nordic man (courtesy of Midjourney)

I tend to disparage Trump supporters in stark terms. From my perspective if you support such a horrible person, either you cannot be a good person yourself or you are profoundly stupid or ignorant. But there is a third option I have not seriously considered, which puts many Republicans in a different light to me.

Trumpers Are Not Entitled to Respect

Maybe, just maybe, they don’t support all the horrible stuff Trump says and does despite being informed of it. Despite not being ignorant or stupid.

The Moment That Changed My Perspective

I had this insight recently after listening to the Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre. It was a debate in Norway about Trump and our future. The fear that NATO is now over and what to do about it. In this debate, Støre made the usual denouncements, but he was overly cautious. He even speculated that Trump just was just using colorful language and didn’t fully mean what he said. It was all so utterly familiar. The desperate attempts to minimize and reinterpret what Trump had said to…