Best explanation I've ever read about Republican mindset and messaging

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15. I have a MAGA relative in another state who often tries to lecture me on

politics (even though I majored in politics and got much better grades, too). But he can't handle it if I respond to anything he says. First he'll start screaming, and then he'll hang up. I've told him lots of times in the past that I don't want to discuss politics with him since he can't discuss that subject at all rationally. He keeps bringing it up anyway, no matter what we were discussing earlier. He seems to think he's "enlightening" me. Idiot.

I was going to say that he can discuss most subjects fairly rationally. Well, family stuff, anyway, which is what I try to keep the conversation on.

But now that I think about it, he usually isn't happy if it turns out any advice I've given him is right, that he'd been doing something wrong -- even if he (or his pets) had benefited from the advice. Often it's health advice, which is another subject I know more about than he does. He doesn't get quite as upset as he does discussing politics. But he's apparently incapable of thanking anyone for giving him facts he needed. Even if he'd have saved a lot of money on health care costs (for himself and his pets) if he'd bothered to get the facts earlier.

Authoritarian mindset. Not willing to learn since it means admitting having been wrong earlier.