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How To Argue With An American Conservative

I came across an article on Yahoo called "Roe v. Wade Is Supreme Example of GOP Unreliability".  I clicked on it expecting an article critical of Republicans but it was a bait & switch and was actually a terribly misguided anti-liberal piece.  The author included his email address and we had a productive and interesting exchange over several weeks.  I'm confident you will find the approach I used helpful in dealing with the misguided conservatives in your life.  I began with this: -------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Charles,  In your article you stated "those justices appointed by Democratic presidents have been, with rare exceptions, reliably liberal — which means, in practice, to decide the desired outcome first, then cook up some quasi-constitutional justification." In fact the exact opposite is true: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/geof-stone-publishes-acs-issue-brief-behavior-scotus-justices Conservative Justices Are Th