Does Contempt for a Leader Mean Disrespecting His Followers?
Feb 11, 2021
Does profound contempt for Donald Trump signify similar disdain for all 74 million Americans who backed his bid for reelection?
Many of the former president’s most fervent admirers believe that it does. In the throes of a second impeachment crisis, Trumpian true believers remain painfully sensitive to disparagement from media, academia, Hollywood, Democratic power brokers and other left-leaning elements of the American establishment. They still recall when Hillary Clinton, at a decisive moment of the 2016 campaign, dismissed the core of Trump’s base as a “basket of deplorables.”…Click here to read the full column at Newsweek.com.