> It's always easy to spot a person who has enclosed themselves in a political or ideological bubble. They're typically first to apply a label to a large group of people and then assume all the people with that label are the exact same.

Your recent posting history here includes calling the entire European Union a "non-contributing toddler" to the world. Hmm.

Digging through my chat history to misrepresent something I've said only underscores my original point.

I've had two such chats with Trump supporters, and one said in great detail that this statement is true. He acknowledged that Trump has done a number of ethically and legally problematic things, and that supporting Trump means enabling this, but feels that he has to accept that necessary evil in order to achieve his policy goals on various issues. (The other flatly denied that Trump has ever done anything wrong and refused to keep talking when I produced examples of the most pointlessly cruel stuff.)

Have you heard differently in your own casual chats on the topic?

What were the policy goals?

Reducing illegal immigration seemed to be the primary one. Some stuff on civil rights too, but I'm not sure if that was a big concern for the guy I was talking to or an attempt to find common ground where he knew I'd be more sympathetic.

Would you give the same leeway to a supporter of Hitler? Stalin? Pinochet?