There’s no link today. Rather, I want to focus on the “truth” Donald Trump posted on his website on Veterans Day. It’s garnered a fair bit of attention with some commentators linking his mention of “vermin” to rhetoric used by Hitler. I don’t know about that — it seems like a stretch to me. It also seems like a great way to alienate on-the-fence Republicans and right-leaning independents who suddenly find themselves called unwitting Nazis.

This isn’t to defend what Trump said in his post. This is to point out there’s a better way to counter him, and that is to take his arguments on piece by piece, without emotion and without insulting his past, present, and future supporters. It’s not a tough tactic. All one needs to do is stack the evidence up against his allegations. So when he says his opponents stole the election, cite his Attorney General and all the other Republican state elections officials saying there was no evidence of foul play. Cite his one-time counsel Sydney Powell claiming her accusations of election fraud shouldn’t be held against her in court because she’d been speaking in a political capacity, which doesn’t require truthfulness. Cite the fact that none of the sixty-two cases the Trump campaign filed ever alleged election fraud. Then ask for the evidence — as opposed to allegations — Trump has put forward. Don’t make the case personal, make it dispassionate. Give his supporters a reason to trust you. Calling them fools and Nazis isn’t it.