All of our problems were caused by the former guy

[Cary]

9. And where does all of your logic and reason get you?

You have no need to debate with or persuade me. The people whom you need to persuade have no use for logic, and wouldn't recognize or appreciate reason if their lives depended on it. The people whom you need to persuade cannot be anything more than what they are: high right wing authoritarian followers.

They never recover. That's a fact. They will only use your logic, reason, fairness, and good faith to gaslight you. They cannot be dissuaded. They cannot handle complexity or nuance.

They are followers and so they can be demoralized and disaffected, and they have given us a scapegoat. They offered him up. They made a golden calf in his image.

I say shove their golden calf down their authoritarian throat.

All of our problems are the former guy's fault. No exception.