The thing is, there’s no reasoning with most Republicans on what they think they know about Democrats. They know what they know, they know more about what Democrats believe and are for than Democrats do, and even when you force them to acknowledge actual Democratic policy positions, they dismiss it as a pretext for their real hidden agenda of stealing money from hard working virtuous white people and using to to buy the votes of lazy, no-account minorities with worthless social programs.
And that’s the poison that damages us with the independents and “moderate” Republicans. Most of them have a halfway decent idea of what Democrats say they’re for. They just don’t believe us when we say it because the Just Know that Democrats are really for ruinous deficit spending and wasting money on worthless social programs that really only benefit people who aren’t them.