Two interviews with and a book by Mehdi Hasan, about how to argue, and win arguments, using emotional connections over facts and figures, critical thinking skills, with the difficulty in conducting “good-faith” arguments with the right. How some victims of right-wing media are lost. With references to the Gish Gallop, and John Stuart Mills.
Salon, Dean Obeidallah, 28 Feb 2023: MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan: You need “rhetorical judo” to challenge the far right, subtitled “Here’s what Hasan says too many left-liberal arguments fail to grasp: ‘We are emotional creatures, not logical'”
