MODERATOR (eyeing Todd, warily): So, moving on to our next issue, I’d like to talk to you about the president’s verbal attacks on members of Congress who happen to be people of color. Does this make you more or less likely to support him in 2020?
KAREN (white, 40, college): Well, Mr. Trump has to defend himself.
KYLE (white, 42, college): I just wish he’d been able to stop all those planes on 9/11. He was only able to take out twenty of the twenty-four planes al-Qaeda sent. (Tears up.) Mr. Trump was down at Ground Zero when it happened. Just like when he saved his whole unit in Nam.
MODERATOR: I think that was Robert Mueller in Vietnam.
KYLE: He was saving those boys from the rubble when Obama was laughing it up at the White House. He had a secret mosque built there, you know.
MODERATOR: I’m pretty sure he wasn’t there, but…
KYLE (growing venomous): He was there. I saw the meme about it on the Patriotic Patriots MegaMAGA Facebook group. Obummer was laughing about it.
MODERATOR: George W. Bush was president at the time…
KYLE: Liar.