This story originally appeared on The Advocate.
Donald Trump has always been awful. And his followers have arguably always been worse.
In 2015, when Trump mocked a reporter living with disabilities, it should have been enough to disqualify him from ever getting enough votes to even be considered a candidate for president of the United States. When Donald Trump and his immigrant wife descended an escalator for a racist attack on Mexicans billed as a press conference, the U.S. media should have stopped giving him the coverage he so desperately needs to survive.
When a video emerged of Donald Trump openly explaining the vulgar way he likes to sexually assault women, he should have been forced to live out his days in social exile at some dictator-chic golf club where we would never have to hear from him ever again.
When the tiki-torch khaki Nazis stormed Charlottesville, America should have said cut ties with MAGA for good. When Donald Trump lied about his whereabouts on 9/11 and claimed he'd witnessed Muslims in New Jersey cheering as the towers fell, he should have been laughed into oblivion.
When Trump rallies turned into glorified KKK rallies, the media should have stopped airing t...