Hate is not healthy for living beings ...

The particular anguish felt and expressed by people who come from the Right and have left those precincts out of disgust with Donald Trump sometimes moves me deeply. Maybe I'm a sucker. But there is something wrenching about observing people who feel the need to repudiate much of their own history. I could weep.

Peter Wehner, speech writer to several Republican presidents past and a serious evangelical Christian, has that effect on me. The current loathsome sentiments with which the Orange Baby Man has responded to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, by their own son inspired Wehner to speak out again on Trump's effect on many in his own tribe. 

Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying

... When a man with Trump’s personality feels caged in, when he feels besieged and abandoned and begins to lose control of events, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous. 

...Trump sets the pace, and his apparatchiks follow. Many of them have gained power and made money dumping toxic sewage into our civic water supply. But their devotion comes at a personal cost. Those who relish cruelty, who take special delight in dehumanizing others, are engaging in self-harm of a certain kind. “When we desecrate the divinity of others,” the author Brené Brown wrote, “we desecrate our own, and we betray our humanity.”

“Those who are kind benefit themselves,” the author of Proverbs put it, “but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.”

At No Kings march in San Francisco.

... Trump is president mainly because of the early and undying support he has received from white evangelical Christians and fundamentalists, not all of them but most of them. They stand with him to this very day, to this very hour, to this very second—not on his every utterance but on the moral arc of his presidency.

Many of the people who claim to follow Jesus are instruments of a merciless leader and a merciless movement. They have chosen their political loyalties over their faith, even while using the latter to validate the former. There is something morally twisted and discrediting in this.

In the season of the Donald, we're all at risk for allowing ourselves to be morally twisted. Ain't worth it.