Leonard Pitts: Do we really need to ‘understand’ Trump voters?

This is for Rose.She is a nice lady who wrote me a nice email in which she spoke about the need to try to understand Donald Trump’s supporters. As Rose put it, “We need to not close ourselves off to how the other side thinks.”It’s a sentiment I hear a lot from progressives, and it bespeaks a great generosity of spirit.But I couldn’t disagree more.Don’t get me wrong. Thinking people will always try to see past their own ideological blind spots, to put themselve