In Defense of Trump Votersby Dan McLaughlinOne of the popular sports…

A common refrain is to list the various awful things associated with Trump - e.g., groping women, stirring up bigotry, toadying to Putin - and suggesting that anyone who votes for Trump must be embracing all of this. A recent Pew survey found that 58 percent of Clinton supporters "have a hard time respecting someone who supports Donald Trump for president," almost a third more than the proportion of Trump voters who view Clinton supports with similar disdain.