If you are capable of reading German, I would highly recommend the book "Talking to Ignoramuses" (Mit Ignoranten Sprechen) by Peter Modler. [0] He proposes tha

If you are capable of reading German, I would highly recommend the book "Talking to Ignoramuses" (Mit Ignoranten Sprechen) by Peter Modler. [0] He proposes that people are generally split between 2 modes of communication and that in order to talk to each other you have to learn how the other sides communicates. It's an interesting proposition and his points are something you can observe when watching debates with Trump and other candidates. He specifically doesn't offer a way to deal with the surge in far right, but he does make great observations in how Trump and others like him behave and steer conversations. Academics especially like to argue with facts and and often cannot understand why people aren't responsive to what they consider obvious, but at the same time fail to understand that a lot of people don't respond to this kind of communication. At least not initially. [0] https://www.drmodler.de/buch/mit-ignoranten-sprechen/ https://www.drmodler.de/buch/mit-ignoranten-sprechen/