You know, there’s a small parallel to this debate going on in certain queer circles. As you might imagine, the vast majority of LGBTQ people – given the Trump administration’s sustained, successful attack on LGBTQ civil rights and its success stirring up heightened public animosity– particularly despise Trump and Trump supporters.

Still, bizarrely, a tiny minority of LGBTQ folks, mostly older gay white men, support Trump, many of them as members of the Log Cabin Republican political group. They can often be quite loud about being “discriminated against" for their political views, calling the majority of us who utterly despise them and would never date them “intolerant.”

But they leave out of their vocal objections the fact that Trumpism is all about intolerance — intolerance of queer people, of Black people, of migrants, of people who care about the climate crisis. You name it.

These Log Cabin types seem to forget Karl Popper’s proposition that tolerance of the intolerant leads inevitably to authoritarian extremism.

Tolerating Trumpism is not a virtue. The intolerant make their own beds.