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Google employees are highly educated (disproportionate numbers of PhDs work there etc.), and highly educated people in America, on both the left and right, were
by betterunix2 8y ago
Google employees are highly educated (disproportionate numbers of PhDs work there etc.), and highly educated people in America, on both the left and right, were mourning when Trump was elected. You do not have to be left leaning to think a President who does not read books, who admires dictators, who is surrounded by criminals, and whose campaign rhetoric involved the overt demonization of ethnic and religious minorities (and plenty of dog whistles too), might be a bad thing for this country. I would have voted Republican if the Democrat candidate had encouraged division in this country the way Trump did. I have intelligent Republican friends who voted for Hillary for the same reason; even my Christian Conservative father in law, who said Bush was not conservative enough, could not bring himself to vote for Trump (he only voted for congressional candidates in 2016). People across the political spectrum recognized the danger Trump poses from the moment he started talking about Mexican rapists.
One problem with the "debate" on Trump is the effort by some to make this into just another political disagreement and to normalize Trump. It is not just politics and the all-hands meeting was not a "political event." People have every reason to be scared by what has been happening since Trump took office.