Thread by @darinp2

(THREAD) Here is an experiment that those who are so inclined can try with Trump supporters among their family, friends, or people online. Note: I take no responsibility for lost friendships or family breakups.

1/ Ask them the following.

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There is a man who is in financial difficulty. He needs to get a loan and can't one. He has worked with a woman and she has become successful. He knows she is very close friends with a decision maker at a bank.

2/ He tells the woman that he wants her to talk to her friend at the bank and get him a loan. The woman knows he is not a good credit risk and that she would basically have to lie to her friend in order for the loan to be granted.

3/ She tells the man that she cannot do what he wants her to do. He then proceeds to try to ruin her life. He stops working with her and tells people who are considering working with her that they shouldn’t. She loses her home and her husband leaves her.

4/ The man takes every opportunity to kick her while she is down and rejoices that he was able to help ruin her life. Over multiple years, he goes out of his way to make her life miserable.

What is your opinion of the man?
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5/ At this point things can go multiple ways. Maybe your Trump supporter is a horrible person. Maybe they are generally a good person. Depending on their answer, you could ask whether they would hire a person like this.

6/ Or how they would feel if one of their children did something like the man did. Eventually you can tell them about Trump (or his chosen writer) putting basically this story in one of his books.

7/ Here is an article that mentions the story in the “Getting Even” section.
edition.cnn.com/2016/04/01/pol…

8/ People can decide for themselves whether to ask something like this at a family gathering. It could lead to a major fight, so maybe not, but some are braver than others.

9/ My personal experience online is that Trump supporters may realize that the man in the story is a scoundrel, but they don’t care when it turns out to be Trump's story.

10/ Some "Christians" can pretty much find a verse for anything, so they can just find one that says it is great to put scoundrels in charge of countries. Just don’t get them started on scoundrels they don’t like.

11/ They may never stop telling you how bad some of the people they don’t like are, since their pastor and/or Fox News told them so.

12/ I recall seeing a video with @kayleighmcenany from before she became a Trump fan where she was complaining about how reality TV was so bad she couldn't show it to her kids. If she heard this story now, I bet she wouldn't care one iota.

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