Leonard Pitts, Jr., responds to a progressive reader who wants him to try to "understand" Trump voters. He shares our frustration with those who think there's some mystery to unlock with Trump voters, and hits on the real "anxiety" that motivates them:
...We see the same demographic writing on the wall that Trump followers see, but where it makes them angry and fearful, it leaves us energized. Many of us are excited to see the nation that will arise from this cauldron of change. [snip]
... Trump followers see a nation in demographic peril, so they seek a nation where those who frighten them can be regulated into irrelevance. There’s no big mystery about that. There never has been. So no, they don’t really need to be understood.
What they need to be, is defeated.The whole op/ed is another example of why Pitts is one of today's most valuable progressive writers. Please read him.
