> We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly
> half of the country that thinks we are severely misguided.
> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump.
> But I’d like to find out, because we have to include
> everyone in our path forward. If our best ideas are to
> stop talking to or fire anyone who disagrees with us,
> we’ll be facing this whole situation again in 2020.
>
> That kind of diversity is painful and unpopular, but
> it is critical to health of a democratic and pluralistic
> society. We shouldn’t start purging people for
> supporting the wrong political candidate.
> That's not how things are done in this country.
This impresses me. That is exactly what I was trying to explain to somebody else in the other thread, and I was starting to feel like it was a position that nobody else held.