“He simply didn’t accept her assumptions.”
Exactly. When it’s obviously garbage NEVER ACCEPT THE PREMISE!
Agreed. We keep doing this with issues such as "Abortion" (Women's Health) Homosexuality (Civil Rights) and a host of other issues.
We ought to start out every conversation with "I flatly reject your attempt to frame the premise of the debate. Your premise is false, and I will not argue from the position of a false premise."
She didn’t name any of the pols. She just said all of them. That is not being specific when he asked her to name them.