Leonard Pitts Jr.: Who cares whats wrong with Donald Trump? Whats wrong with us?

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39. Prejudging a large group - Need more info.

The question "what's wrong with us" assumes that everyone who voted for Trump was in that "basket of deplorables."

That's a judgement that 63 million are racist, anti-immigrant, bigoted white lemmings, which then translates into calling them all immoral "deplorable".

I'll assume there's a healthy percentage that qualify as just that, but are we ignoring issues of national and party identity? I can't think of another country that would vote in a member of a minority that represents only 13.2% of the population.

Is that pure racism, or could there be some overlap with an uneasy feeling of loss of identity, i.e., " I don't feel American anymore because the president is from a different minority." Isn't that a different issue?

Then there's party identity which also aligns with self identity. Joe Scarborough just renounced his party affiliation. He's obviously educated, well-informed, not overtly racist, moral, seems rational. So that's great, but he stayed Republican through Bush/Cheney supply side deregulation catastrophes and 8 years of Republican/libertarian treachery? McCain is still a Republican.