This is simply not possible. He might be good at fooling you, but the two are simply incompatible.
Not true. He is the one example of a smart liberal, who is also kind and wise. Most liberals I know are narrow minded and petty, he is not.
Our major disagreement is about the effacy of government interventions. I think they are invariably captured by special interests and are counterproductive and worse than useless. He thinks agrees, but thinks they are marginally better than useless.
His background is largely middle class, he’s never really known poverty or poor people, mine is a lot more hardscrapple. I witnessed the war on poverty first hand and saw its destructive effects.