Being hyperbolic, spewing buzzwords at people, yelling at them that they’re wrong about everything, calling them demeaning names, shutting down all conversation by calling someone a Racist! Sexist! Homophobe! Bigot! is why Trump won. People got sick of being patronised by people who refuse to step outside their own little echo chamber.
Out of everything you said, this one actually is a good point and it’s something that has always bugged me about democrats lately. I’m not saying I’m on the side of conservatives by any means, but very few of them actually are those things.
I think it’s a bullshit argument. You get called a sexist so you decide to vote for the most sexist candidate in recent history? Where’s the logic in that?
Some people take things out of hand with their accusations but most of them are coming from a reasonable place, but people just aren’t listening. It’s incredible how sensitive people on the right (and in general) are to criticism and refuse to believe that anything they do could be wrong or harmful. The hypocrisy of people on the right talking about echo chambers is overwhelming.
I wasn’t saying it excused voting for trump, I was only saying the name calling is not productive in converting people to your side. Not that conservatives don’t do it too.