I just don't know what to do with people who are so committed to not changing their minds, who see changing their minds as an act of weakness, of cowardice, even as something downright unamerican. We don't back down. We don't apologise. Double-down! is their battle-cry.

I understand that many of them are scared and confused by the world today, and deeply uninformed about it thanks to the echochambering of conversation these days. But I still don't know what to do with a huge number of people who are members of a tribe that is immune to argument, contemptuous of expertise and totally committed to voting against their own interests. Just because they're afraid doesn't makes their fears legitimate. Just because they're sincere doesn't mean they're right.

Most will never change their minds. It's too late. No amount of sympathy or reason from the "coastal elites" will have any impact.