If, after voting for him in 2016, someone had come out and said they had regrets, one of my favorite old German friends, Schadenfreude, would have paid me a visit. I would have enjoyed their pain, their sorrow, their humiliation, but after they finally woke up, I still would have needed to see them make amends, do better, and educate themselves. I wouldn’t have befriended them or wanted them in my life. That’s asking too much. But I could have appreciated their remorse and horror at being so wrong and stupid. I wouldn’t have been sympathetic because ignorance is not an excuse when their orange messiah’s irredeemable psychopathic behavior was on full display and had been for decades. Eventually, I might have been able to tolerate them. Beyond those initial feckless fools, no MAGAt deserves grace, kindness, forgiveness, understanding, or any shred of decent treatment. They deserve to be shunned forever. They deserve hate. They deserve to be mocked and ridiculed. The only other thing they...
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