To those insisting that we "reach out to" and "understand" Trump supporters, let me break it down

[Hermit-The-Prog]

234. no diminishment, not excused

That hate begins with fear -- anything that is perceived as a threat may become hated.

We are all born with a fear of being extinguished and all of its subset fears of falling, entrapment, the unknown (including darkness because of threats not seen and 'other', including snakes, insects, and beasts), loss of self, etc. When these are reasonable fears, they aid survival; when they are unreasonable, they damage the individual and that individual's community.

Racism is based on an unreasonable fear of a non-threatening difference. If reinforced as reasonable, either through societal policies such as segregation or by authority figures (parents, etc.), it can become hatred. That hatred is taught but is based on fear.

Brown v. Board of Education and the Little Rock nine represented the law disavowing segregation as well as providing white students in Central High an opportunity to experience for themselves the fact that racial differences are non-threatening. A tiny step, certainly, but there's a big difference in the U.S. between then and now. That was a big chip in a wall that had been built for centuries.

Teach greed and hatred well enough and you end up with TrumPutin.