Sigh, trying to use facts and logic to convince Trump and Harper supporters usually has the opposite effect. The wonder is that Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes behind Clinton. It takes time, as it did with the Vietnam War.

'“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.'
John Stuart Mill, 1866

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/election-1988-feature/
'Conservative party pollster Allan Gregg explained the tactic: "I say this without a hint of condescension or of attempting to be patronizing, but there's no other way to say it — we're trying to get the real dumb ones." '

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2017/01/when-facts-backfire-why-worldview-threats-undermine-evidence/

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2017/02/27/why-the-american-public-seems-allergic-to-facts/