My personal approach is to give them as much time and space as possible as I cautiously back away from them. They are not generally interested in genuine conversation. So, unless they are infringing upon my personal space, I'll allow them to enjoy themselves as they take pleasure in entertaining themselves.
It, however, becomes problematic when they claim to be pro-Trump when what they really are is anti-Clinton (or vice versa). Especially, when the things they know are exaggerations of partial truths and care not a whit about the ramifications of policy issues. Indeed, they tend not to want to discuss real world issues unless they can interject their emotions via conspiracy theories into it.
A very small example of a lie perpetuated as a truth by someone who claims to be a truth seeker showed up in today's newspaper as the "sort of Twitter post for which a charged post-election moment, full of conspiracy theories and anxieties, was perfectly primed."
"Eric Tucker, a founder of a technology company with an Austin office called PocketMath, claimed that protesters who had gathered Wednesday night in Austin to voice their anger about the presidential election outcome were “not as organic as they seem.”
Attaching photos of white Charter USA buses parked in East Austin near downtown, he wrote:
“Here are the busses (sic) they came in.”
"The post was seized as evidence that protests happening around the country were somehow concocted by the Hillary Clinton campaign, the media, liberal financier George Soros or some other boogeyman.
By Friday morning, Tucker’s tweet had been retweeted more than 15,000 times, picked up by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and the Austin-based national alt-right personality Alex Jones. A Fox News story headlined, “Trump protests intensify, as doubts swirl about spontaneity,” said in the second graph, “observers online are claiming that, in some cases, protesters were bused to the scenes — a telltale sign of coordination,” citing Tucker’s tweet.
The problem: It wasn’t true."
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/how-an-austin-tweet-about-trump-protests-became-a-/ns66K/
His rationalizations that followed after his malfeasance was uncovered were both embarrassing and mundane. He exemplified the typical lack of integrity that conspiracy theorists (of both the Left and right) display by substituting egoic self righteousness for thoughtful and honest appraisal.
Politics is indeed war in slow motion. Thus, the need for diplomacy, which becomes more and more difficult when emotions overrule the thought process.
