Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
These aren't things you persuade people about by making outrageous statements/actions and then moderating them. If your endgame is to convince everyone (e.g.) abortion is bad and should be illegal, you're not going to get everyone to think that by starting out saying 'death penalty to abortion doctors!'. You'll just make them think you're a radical fuckwit, and once you say/do enough radical fuckwit things, they'll stop listening to you at all. That's not persuading people of anything. If Trump thinks that it is, well good luck to him.
Totally true, if willy nilly.