Religion

Part of loving ones enemies is recognizing that even abhorrent behavior is part of the human experience.
Whether watching Greek tragedies, or reading of people who “fall from grace”, seeing people destroy themselves through a fatal flaw is sad to watch. A good man with a fatal flaw can be understood, but this man who is incapable of acts of kindness or empathy seems beyond redemption.

To see any part of humanity as beyond redemption is against my core feelings of faith. “I have reason to believe we all will be received in the Graceland”, sings Paul Simon. There was a scene in Twin Peaks when Agent Cooper is holding the murderer BOB / Leland’s head in his lap as he lay dying, and there is “rain” falling down on both of them from the sprinkler heads in the jail cell. Agent Cooper is telling him to go toward the light as he dies. There’s so much ugliness in the human condition.

I don’t feel sorry for trump. But I feel sorrow for the human moral condition. We are all connected, and the society which nurtures such a person into a position of power is one which is broken in a fundamental way.