I think one of our biggest mistakes comes from saying about the left that they all hate our country and they want to destroy us.
While I don’t doubt that SOME OF THEM want to, as a strategy for collapsing the system and instilling socialism, there are MANY lefties who love the country too- they are just stupid and naive and really really believe that they can solve problems with the government.
This is the “child-like sentiment applied to adult situations” type of liberal. And we lose the ability to teach them something and turn them off buy telling them we think they hate the country.
That is a version of Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. But calling attention to their stupidity isn't going to win many of them over either. One thing that might help if we used it more is using the sheepdog named Shame to herd them away from a wolf named Envy to a place where they won't harm themselves.