1. Language is subjective. I hear "disdain" and I think "hatred," and I don't hate all Trump supporters. I hate the ones who know he's a racist and voted for him anyway, for the reasons described so well by
@The Commish here. But I know there are many people who, for a variety of reasons ranging from reality TV to ignorance to whatever else, didn't believe the man to be what he so obviously is (a bigot, a fraud and a scam artist) and has proven to be as President.
2. I cannot tell you how tired I am of sentiments like this one: "I suspect that the ones you and others are judging are looking at your daily broadcast judgement and look forward to telling you to pound sand and then vote for another four years of this idiot." At every turn people like me (left-leaning, urban, coastal) are made to feel like it's somehow
our fault that people voted for Trump and that if we're not careful they'll do it again. Eff that. I'm not someone else's excuse for voting for a bigoted fraudulent scam artist, any more than they're my excuse for voting for whatever they think Hillary Clinton was. It's a tired narrative. There were literally dozens of soft-focus profiles of "Trump Country" after 2016, at least one in every prominent coastal news outlet in America, trying to spread empathy and an understanding of their perspective. The entire burden of reaching across the divide was placed on us, the people who lost the election. And it didn't change a thing. I don't know why they like him, and honestly at this point I don't care.
We're not gonna win them over in 2020. We're gonna outnumber them.