I ran into a Trump supporter today.

[ColemanMaskell]

6. Try just asking questions as if you are considering voting Trump and want to know more

The method is to try to draw them out with questions, as if you're interested in knowing more about how wonderful Trump is, and you just keep asking questions (escalating in small hesitant increments) until they trap themselves, and hopefully in the process of trying to explain it they actually think it through. It's a modified Socratic method.

Works with Jehovah's Witnesses too.

You have to know a lot about your subject though.

Typically they never admit defeat of course; they say they have to ask someone up-chain from themselves for more information; if you don't ever see them again after that, well, could be they've moved on in their thinking.

Sometimes they refuse to talk to you all right, but if the guy is standing there with a Trump sign and you ask for more information then it's hard for him to refuse to answer, at least if he thinks you might become a convert.

Admittedly Trump supporters at this point are a tougher nut to crack than Jehovah's Witnesses, though.

The trick is to align with them enough that they think they might bring you over. Anytime you betray yourself as diametrically 180 degrees opposite, they clam up (or attack).

Best of luck. It's a hard slog.