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We Don't Need to Agree to Disagree With Trump Supporters. They're Just Wrong.
I often find myself in a now-familiar spot with Trump supporters I know: hopelessly stuck in an unnavigable impasse on our respective paths, unable to find a way forward.
And when the friction becomes too great, the exchange too heated, and the tension too uncomfortable, they invariably drop an all-too-familiar final salvo designed to stop the conversation and avoid pressing ahead:
"We're just going to have to agree to disagree."
I strongly disagree.
I refuse these terms.
I do not consent to this convenient truce.
Such a concession assumes that we both have equally valid opinions, that we're…
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