I've been in enough conversations where a position being attacked is just so wildly off base in terms of what adherents would agree is fair that it felt necessary to defend positions I didn't agree with for intellectual honesty
My go-to example is all sorts conspiracy theorizing about how anti-choice groups have some secret, overarching plot to saddle every woman with kids to help oligarchs and, like, no, guys, they just think it's murder, a position preposterous enough we don't have to invent a fan fiction to attack
I see that too & think well... maybe Steve Bannon & Stephen Miller & Peter Thiel are thinking of the underclass of serfs they could create to man the meat processing plants & strawberry fields... but not the mainstream anti abortion groups.
I think many of us have gone a little mad out of fear.
