I try to remember that most of them are legitimately brainwashed into an actual cult, and stuck in one hell of a bubble. There's certainly a lot of underlying prejudice at play--this is America we are talking about, after all--but they are also being misled. Lest we forget the real perpetrators of Jan 6th, who have yet to be punished; I have a hard time imagining I'd have taken a different course of action from those rioters if I truly thought an election had been stolen and no one in power was doing anything.

That said...I think many of these people are beyond help at this point. At least as far as interactions with non-family/friends goes. Use your best judgement when interacting with them, eh.

We should welcome like minded people, but at what point is too much tolerance that lets more rights be taken away?

Libertarian nutjob who voted against Trump three times here. We probably disagree on some things but we definitely agree that people's rights being taken by a tyrannical government is wrong.

The party that beats MAGA has to be a big tent. Voting is a numbers game and every vote counts, you don't win elections by shutting groups of people out.