Maggie's Farm

What I notice among my friends and acquaintances, particularly the latter, is that there is a strong difference in the way they explore political views. Conservatives will make a comment or an observation that is supportive of Trump and his policies. They'll be careful about doing it at first - but they seem to have a bit more insight when it comes to sizing up people, and they'll already be fairly certain they're talking to a person with similar views before they make such comments. When an opposing view is made, I find Trump supporters are often pretty noncommittal with their responses. There are plenty of exceptions, of course.

Progressive Democrats, on the other hand, seem to prefer probing with comments that tend to be derisively anti-Trump, and they often watch carefully for reactions when they make the comments. It seems to be important to suss out and identify Trump supporters. There seems to be a fairly commonly-held belief that Conservatives are mostly radical Trump supporters that can have predictable, extreme reactions, no nuanced beleifs. It does seem that being neutral with your responses in these situations is a little bit frustrating for them, but they eventually will drop the subject if you don't take the bait either way.