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MSNBC’s Jon Capehart questions how to ‘live’ with Trump voters: ‘How do we move forward?’

November 11, 2024 | | Print Article

Joined by rainbow activist clergy, MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart hosted his own struggle session on co-existing with people who “voted for him” — and those voters had some advice of their own.

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Purveyors in “political negativity” continued their lack of self-awareness in the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, and that included the host of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show.”

As he sat down with Marxist missionaries, openly gay retired Bishop Gene Robinson and Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, the pronoun-peddling senior minister for public theology and transformation of New York City’s Middle Church, the commentator avoided use of the GOP leader’s name as he stated, “The thing that I’m grappling with is that someone was elected who ran a campaign that was openly hostile, openly racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, transphobic — everything.”

“And yet now the election’s over, folks accept the results, but now…how do we move forward when…you have people in their families who voted for him, they work with people who voted for him, they live next to people who voted for him. What do you — how do we — how should we deal with those neighbors; co-workers; family members?” he asked as fearmongering extended beyond Trump to his supporters.

In response to the question, the former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire insisted people “remain passionate about protecting these most vulnerable people” while heaping onto the demonization.

“If this new president does half of what he says, there will be so many of them in danger,” said Robinson who continued, “I think the way to move forward in a family or in the whole culture is this: every religion in the world has some version of do unto others as you would have them do unto you, love your neighbor, even love your enemies, those of us Christians have.”

“And here’s the trick. Loving has little to do with liking. You don’t have to like someone to treat them like the child of God they are. You can argue with them. You can fight with them over all kinds of things. But you can’t not treat them as a person of worth and respect that God created them to be,” he added.

After suggesting the “darkness” felt by those buying into the hyperbole could represent a “tomb” or a “womb,” Robinson promoted the latter suggesting something could be gestating rather than being extinguished.

Before the segment closed, Capehart turned to Lewis seeking a response to those who’d said the election “tested their faith” to which she said, “That’s the truth. It has. Our prayers feel like they’ve been unanswered and I would say, you and I are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We don’t serve a god who is a puppet master.”

“We are in the world to be God’s hands and feet and heartbeat,” she went on before dancing on the line of blasphemy, “and so have faith right now in you. Have faith in your community.”

Reactions to the segment primarily called for the guest to take a good hard look in the mirror as many insisted, “He still doesn’t realize that he’s the bad guy.”

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