It’s taken years to draw Donald Trump’s supporters into their dangerous obsessions. Is it too late to turn back?
The easiest thing to do is to persuade people to accept something. Maybe they’ll turn a blind eye, or maybe they’ll nod and think “sure, okay”.
People accept things all the time, from sincerely-concerned environmentalists driving fume-spewing cars to fervent anti-socialists wondering when their next stimulus cheque is coming from the government.
Harder than that is persuading people to believe something.