Two, people suck at changing their minds, especially toward politicians, ideas and other people. It's the signature failure of liberalism anywhere: Understanding and careful consideration are much higher-order functions than succumbing to fear, nurturing resentment and rejoicing in punishment, which has been the right's schtick since Torquemada. And resentment, fear and punishment are very good at accommodating themselves to new facts. We could discover a thousand touching Hallmark moments in Hillary Clinton's emails, and people who already hate Hillary Clinton will have countless excuses to write them off. They'll just be Hillary's version of Hitler's Dog — that one humanizing aspect that makes a detested public figure more sinister. Even
