I Don't Grieve His Hatred, I Grieve Their Hatred

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Dec 8, 2023 · 4m

This was never about him.

My Trump-supporting family members and former friends think it has been but my sadness really has nothing to do with him.

From the very beginning he’s just been a spotlight.

Over the past few years, he has simply revealed clearly the hidden ugliness of the place I call home and the people I live here alongside and that is the thing I grieve over. And this is not the mourning over a singular political loss a few years ago, it has been a daily and pervasive grieving; a bleak, protracted funeral.

I’ve grieved seeing elementary school teachers dressed up like a border…