“I think Trump ultimately is going to do America and the world a service by becoming the vehicle that will finally take down right-wing conservative politics for a generation or two.”
Wrong conclusion. This person needs to go back to the cabin and do a little more thinking. Maybe try some honest, humble soul searching this time and try to understand what it is about their thinking that went off track.
We know an ultra liberal, kool-aid drinking couple who slunk off to a cabin in the woods after the election, too. Went there to lick their wounds and stoke their anger.
It seems like a popular lefty thing to do when they don’t get their way. They pretend that they are doing something wholesome in communing with nature, but they are really just seeking a place to stoke their rage in private. They are plotting, planning and scheming. It would never occur to them that all the plotting, planning and scheming they have done in the past was taking them in the wrong direction.
After this couple we know got back to civilization, they looked around for some place to channel their anger, disappointment and misery and noticed that a women’s anti-trump rally was being planned in DC and signed up. It never occurred to them to investigate just who was behind the protest or even what the purpose of the protest was. They just joined up like the useful idiots they are. They have no idea that support for sharia is at the root of it and probably wouldn’t want to know. They are that blind and that stupid.
Yours were offered with the best of intentions but GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). No matter how long he "thinks", he will invariably come to the same wrong conclusions.
A tactic of the left is to accuse one's debate opponent of being "closed minded" and unable to consider alternate points of view. I always challenge this assertion by saying, "Nonsense. If you can sustain your assertions by virtual of persuasive argument and the introduction of actual evidence I will readily adopt it."
Very occasionally I'll get someone who will attempt an argument but only on the rare occasion. Most lefties do not understand the difference between an argument and an insult.