Terry Prone: Visiting the States now puts you in line for a test of your forbearance

Trump supporters, without provocation, will forcefully share their beliefs with you; on the other side are people who passionately disagree, but take refuge in safe silence, writes Terry Prone
Terry Prone: Visiting the States now puts you in line for a test of your forbearance

Scientific studies 'will not likely change the mind of a Trump supporter'. 

To walk through the current affairs section of Barnes & Noble, the major bookstore, in any Floridian city, this week, is to see a preponderance of books about the Trump era. 

Seven out of 10 of them are accounts of the man’s style, mental capacity, and mismanagement of the pandemic and the nation, written by precisely the people you’d expect to be anti-Trump and hostile to what he stands for. The kind of people who point out that fact-checking has revealed the former president lied at least 10,000 times during his presidency. 

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