Here's a good general rule for spotting dishonest arguments:
A good argument sticks to the topic and weighs the pros and cons.
A bad argument relies entirely on an analogy.
The Democrat argument against Trump is "He will act like (fill in name of dictator)." That's analogy-thinking, which is almost the opposite of evaluating the pros and cons.
When your opponent stops talking about policy and relies entirely on analogies and weird new definitions of words, you already won the debate.
But you haven't won the persuasion, necessarily.
That's harder.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) hosts a daily podcast of commentary on news and life in general, often with unique and useful insights. Here we look at some excerpt from his public youtube channel.
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Episode 2741 CWSA 02/05/25 Real Coffee with Scott Adams Real Coffee with Scott Adams 171K subscribers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJaF...
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Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Subscribe Trump used a persuasion technique called "Entering Your Illusion" when he questioned Harri...
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Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Subscribe For extra fun, I contend we can prove reality is a simulation by identifying all the coding shortcuts ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JBoBDSxz5I 52:11 Here's my final evidence that we live in a simulation. You ready for this? This rea...