I respectfully disagree that:

• you can straightforwardly expect everyone whose positive bias works towards the right to interpret Elon’s gesture as a nazi salute. Frankly I’m not convinced based on the video, and I’m not into the guy at all. Apologies if you were referring to sth else
• people generally agree with or like everyone in their side’s coalition. Centrist democrats don’t constantly shut down those farther left, and I think it’s absurd when republicans call Harris a communist/socialist for failing to do so

I mean, sure, treat people who do nazi salutes like nazis, but that’s a tiny tiny minority of the millions who voted for Trump. I have family who did. I don’t agree with them, but they aren’t evil, and it matters that they know someone outside their echo chamber. That’s all I’m saying.

I didn’t at all mean that you said we should kill them. I mean that if no one is going to kill them or otherwise get rid of them, then you are going to continue to share a country with them. Particularly the bits about being a psycho fake friend in a conservative org, or being an 80s jock style bully is a bad response to that reality.

Yeesh. What’s supposed to happen to the ~half the country that prefers Trump, they disappear? You kill them? Trying to further divide the country into less and less connected social graphs of partisan clusters that loathe each other might feel like helping, because your individual actions are pushing in your direction along the main partisan axis, but this is a negative-sum game that neither side is in a position to decisively win. How about trying to be friends with a few people on the other side of (but near enough to) the fence, so someone in their circle has a reason to care what people with your opinions think.