Reframing the Trump conversation with Supporters of Trump
As it takes ten times the effort to refute bullshit as it does to create it, Trump supporters are able to make arguments or hold their support for Trump based on erroneous information provided by Fox News, The White House, Trump's Twitter feed, or any other number of sources of dubious character. With that said, how best to handle a situation where perhaps a close fried or relative is a Trump supporter who makes ridiculous claims and fails to critically examine their own beliefs or blindly accepts information provided to them from the dubious sources? In such cases, putting effort toward refuting bullshit claims can be exhausting and in most cases the supporter will brush evidence aside, as Sartre side about people who argue from bad faith.... At any rate, it is best when having such discussions to firmly try and keep it simply and to control the conversation. The foundation from which one should precede a conversation from is that Trump is a bad person. From that fol...
