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Been there, belive me. Set a hard boundary with him. Tell him you love him and want to preserve your relationship but for that to happen, politics have to be off the table for discussion. A lot of these types also have plenty of opinions rooted in ignorance and they are not even aware that what they say and think is political, racist, sexist. etc. He also needs to trust that when he crosses this line, that he needs to respect if you bow out of discussion or respond appropriately to it. Either he gets the message or doesn't, and that way the burden is not on you to maintain the relationship. If he doesn't respect that, it's on him.
Sucks to have to set that boundary and can feel cold. But it's better than you harming your mental health by continuing to try and argue with him. You're never going to radicalize him or change his mind. And if he's anything like my father, some part of him honestly probably sees antagonizing you as "sport." There is a huge generational disconnect today and most of these adults above the age of Millenial/GenZ seem to have a fundamental inability to grasp just how high the personal and immediate ramification of capitalism are on our lives. They got theirs and will pass before they ever see the worst of it.