You don't have to like them or be their friend, but I think it's unhealthy to view half of the country as evil - and the other half as good by default. I think this is a really simplistic way to view the problems going on in this country right now.
People are a result of all sorts of contradictions and backgrounds. They internalize beliefs from their families and lifestyles. They take the news they're forcefed their whole lives as gospel and often live in environments where they will be socially reprimanded for breaking away from the consensus. (And this isn't just Republicans either!) Again, you don't have to get a beer with them or hug and kiss them. But if you want to fix "the problem," you have to view it as a problem from the top to the bottom. The politicians and powerful are the ones to blame for the current state of the country far more than the voters. Clean house on this evil white nationalist political party. Unfortunately I think we're on an unstoppable trajectory careening towards something really, really bad.
This opinion may have held up right after the election - pending how Trump supporters behave during his presidency - but it sure as hell doesn't hold up now. You're simply ignoring what the far right does and says and has been doing and saying for four years as it relates to Trump and really for decades as it relates to the far right.
I don't know if you simply can't face the undeniably simplistic reality of who these people are or you just haven't been paying attention.
When we're talking about the far right/Trumpists: they are evil. They are deliberately evil and intentionally cruel because they view America as belonging to them and they cheer for the brutalizing of anyone who threatens that, like anti-racism protesters and immigrants and literally just anyone who voted for Biden. They believe they are in a divine battle for America, a country that is favored by the creator of the universe and that the left are satanic pedophiles and their representatives in government deserve extrajudicial executions.
Their evil manifests itself in the the disinformation and conspiracy theories they spread; the death threats, violent assault and actual deaths of people like journalists and anti-nazi protesters. And now they want the military to step in to overturn an election who they say must have been fraudulent because of all the black people who voted in swing states.
Not only is it not unhealthy to recognize how evil these people are but I'd say it's unhealthy not to. You don't need to engage in any bullshit or intellectual dishonesty to do it because - as I already mentioned - we have seen and heard what these people think about how other Americans and non-Americans should be treated and it's absolutely evil.
As for the politicians who manipulate them - yeah that's a problem but they elect and re-elect those politicians, despite the politicians basically telling them the government is mostly pointless and shouldn't be helping them. They experience that lack of help but even as they're destitute they'll continue vote for them because those politicians also promise to protect whiteness and systemic racism and all the awful things about conservatism that results in the pain and suffering of everyone they hate.
People can continue to reference these magical, non-existent layers of complexity to Trump voters but simplistic doesn't inherently diminish the truth of something, and the truth is those people are fucking evil.
