A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

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My in-laws voted for him twice. They are pro-life, and that's all that matters to them. Otherwise they support progressive policies like single-payer healthcare. But when it comes to abortion, they will vote for a literal anti-Christ to make it illegal. Funny that they are Catholic.

People who say they are pro-life will vote for the most pro-death policies, it's crazy.

Your in-laws sound like uninformed rubes.

They kind of are, no college education and they don't take the time to self-educate. Their support for single payer healthcare is something that both me and my husband have been working on with them for a while. I don't think they are completely lost - they never showed the kind of hate I've seen from other Trump supporters. So I'll keep trying.

So they're going to vote for the guy that had an abortion?

If murder was legal, and somebody who was known to have committed murder was running, and you were confident that person would make murder illegal, and you were convinced that their opponent (who may have never committed murder themselves) would actively encourage more murder, maybe even pay poor people to commit murder, which candidate would you vote for?

I can't follow this argument. Try to be more concise.

Trust me, we've tried to reason with them. It's maddening because they are otherwise mostly reasonable people, just ignorant politically and scientifically.