Engaging with Trump's die-hard supporters isn't productive

[blackhawk]

Neither is engaging with his die hard critics.

 

[Indeependent]

As if anyone on the left or sane right hasn't learned this lesson already?

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Ordinary people worn out by the dramas and lies of the past four years have a right to refuse to take Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters seriously. To reject further debate with people whose views are completely incoherent is not only understandable, but sensible.​

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I am talking about the people who are giving Trump their full-throated support to the very end, even as he mulls a military coup; the people who buy weird paintings of Trump crossing the Delaware, or who believe that Trump is an agent of Jesus Christ, or who think that Trump is fighting a blood-drinking ring of pedophiles. These supporters have gone far beyond political loyalty and have succumbed to a kind of mass delusion. It is not possible to engage them. Indeed, to argue with them is to legitimize their beliefs, which itself is unhealthy for our democracy.​

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I don’t want to treat our fellow citizens with open contempt, or to confront and berate them. Rather, I am arguing for silence. The Trump loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories and who remain part of a cult of personality should be deprived of the attention they seek, shunned for their antidemocratic lunacy, and then outvoted at the ballot box.​

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If we’ve learned one thing about “Trumpism,” it is that there is no such thing as “Trumpism.” No content anchors it; no program or policy comes from it. No motivating ideology stands behind it, unless we think of general grievance and a hatred of cultural and intellectual elites as an “idea.” And when views are incoherent andbeliefs are rooted in fantasies, compromise is impossible. Further engagement is not only unwarranted, but it can also become counterproductive.​

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We must go on as a nation, and as families. Of course you still love your uncle, even if he is bellowing about stolen elections at Christmas dinner, just as you love your sister-in-law even while she’s trying to ruin a wedding reception by holding forth on socialist saboteurs. But neither they nor the millions of other diehards deserve our engagement. The sooner we refuse to continue such conversations, the sooner we might return to being a serious nation.​

And yet, we do it anyway. Most of us can learn something from this piece. Sure, it's fun to point fingers and laugh at Trumpettes, but it has become counterproductive.

Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive

The loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories should be deprived of the attention they seek.

www.theatlantic.com

Have you ever considered how many millions of US citizens were disenfranchised by bpth parties since GW?
Have you ever considered how people lost their incomes when they were replaced by illegals and business visas.

Were you too busy being infatuated by your portfolio and/or your newfound slave labor.

I am fully aware I will not get an honest, thoughtful answer.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Oh look, the Himmlerites are declaring those who support Trump as sub-human.

Wonder where these Nazi fucks learned that little trick?

Who in this piece declared Trump supporters to be "subhuman"? Really, it would be interesting to find out.

Obviously you failed reading comprehension back in first grade, Comrade.

 

[jc456]

in other words, you can't debate. you know you'll lose. we know, it's why you all have to cheat.

 

[9thIDdoc]

Engaging with Trump's die-hard supporters isn't productive​

Of course not. Effective engagement would require rational thought and speech.