Democrats’ Anti-Trump Narratives Are Immune To Real Information

In a long thread on his many discussions over the last year with Trump and Harris supporters, a Daily Wire editor drops this contrast down in the middle:

I live in a deep-blue zone, and I have these vibes-and-racism conversations several times a week. I learned today, face-to-face, that Donald Trump hates everyone who isn’t white. I mean, he despises them. All of them. These conversations go like this:

A: Trump is SUCH a f-cking racist, man. He hates everyone who isn’t white. How can you even support someone like that?

B: Why is he racist?

A: Are you being serious right now? C’mon, man!

B: No, but why is he racist?

A: I can’t believe you’re defending him!

B: OK, look: Donald Trump has already been the president for four years. What would you say were the top three racist policies he implemented?

A: You know what, I’m done with this discussion.

B: I’d settle for one really good one. What big racist policy did he implement?

A: I can’t even talk to you about this stuff — you’re so irrational!

Over and over and over and over again, these conversations hit the “I can’t even talk to you about this stuff” moment, the hard shutdown.

What evidence can you offer for that view? [cognitive program shuts down]

Certain trigger terms warn you that the shutdown is moments away: “conspiracy theory,” “disinformation,” “what are you even talking about?” This personal observation about social interaction applies equally well to CNN panel discussions, by the way.

I’ve written before that I had a conversation just after the 2016 election in which I was asked how I could support someone who was going to put my own friends and family in the camps, man, he’s gonna put us in the f-cking camps!

Eight years later, and after four years of a

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