Thomas Barta: Facts alone aren’t enough to change people’s minds

Shortly before the 2016 US presidential election, a nuclear bomb hit the Trump campaign. A video showing Trump making sexist remarks about women was leaked. What happened next was more puzzling than the video itself: even among female supporters, Trump’s approval ratings didn’t really move much.
Facts, it seems, aren’t always enough to change people’s minds. But what does?
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