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AmishMachinist 5 points ago +5 / -0

From personal experience, people tend to dislike him for: His personality, they're not a fan of the brashness and loud, rude (hilarious) attacks on others

They only watch mainstream news and genuinely believe that he is a racist/fascist/xenophobe

They believe that he's peddling influence and trying to consolidate even more power under the executive branch, usually talking about Russiagate and the police "brutalizing" the "protestors", and the EOs he's signed.

I've found that some people can be brought around on his personality by showing them the policy wins he's had, cutting down on human trafficking, peace deals, etc. If his personality comes up I'll usually say something like "I'm voting for him because of what he's actually doing, not what he's saying".

It's incredibly hard to get people to step away from the MSM ragebait though. It's an addiction like any other, one habit has to be replaced with another. I'm trying to get some people I know to watch Tim Pool and ABL over MSNBC, it's mostly about appearances, they want a calm authoritative person to tell them the news, theyre not ready for high energy like Alex Jones and Salty Cracker. There's others that I don't even try. I'll throw out red pills here and there if it comes up, but they've usually bought into the fascist/destroying civilization narrative. The red pill just needs the to work.

Also, some of these people don't know about most of the new media. IME, they're mostly genX or older who didn't grow up with the internet based information. They either watch the news on TV that they grew up with, or they watch the same companies online, and it's not even that they want to be uninformed, they just don't know where to start. They don't know about the sea of on the ground reporting and real analysis that exists, we have to ease them into it.