We can be pissed at those who pander to the wishful thinking that anyone's ignorance is equal to anyone else's expertise, or we can buy our opponents books to get them to think beyond their politics of science or anything else -- covid, history, women, etc. -- so that we don't have to drag others along as we try to constructively cope with humankind's massive mistakes that will kill us all.
I hear you. 
But my belief is also that we have to educate Americans who still walk around with no more than the introductory knowledge of high school. So when I buy books like Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Starry Messenger -- Cosmic Perspectives On Civilization, I buy several copies and give them to my trumpy neighbors (at least the ones who read), hoping to move the needle toward our common existential work ahead.
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