This Evening My Dad Saw a Glimmer of Light Politically, for the first time

My dad is a fairly blue collar, retired guy who is in the MAGA sphere but only peripherally, I believe because I have routine conversation with him that counteracts the Fox News/Drudge Reports and such.

Today I called him to talk about Trump's press conference on the DC crash, and how the POTUS showed poor leadership by immediately blaming the other guy instead of consoling the country.

He immediately launched into right wing talking points about DEI, blaming Biden/Buttigeig, the Tower was understaffed etc. I brought up that DEI is misrepresented by the Right and is essentially a propaganda tool. I talked about how my very profit-driven company has a DEI program and it basically boils down to learning about others not like ourselves.

For basically the first time ever in my chats with my dad, he questioned what he had been spoon-fed. "WELL WHY DONT THEY EXPLAIN IT LIKE THAT!" he said, and I said well dad, that defeats the point of the propaganda.

Anyway it all seemed to resonate and he genuinely seemed to reflect a bit and get less defensive, which is a win in my book. Thanks Trump for reacting so badly and showing such poor leadership during a national tragedy that even my stubborn father had to reconsider his viewpoint for time.