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That right there is a wedge that can be opened. (Not be someone who comes across as being left-wing, who they'll likely reject out of hand, mind).
The seed of doubt has been sown, and now it remains to be asked just how kidnapping brown people (phrasing it that way won't work but I'm not currently trying to convince anyone...) benefits them, personally. It's an opportunity to examine the disconnect between things they feel are connected - "everything is shit and I don't have enough money" and "there's too many foreigners and brown people".
That’s when you find out it’s not about belief, it’s about tribalism. It’s essentially a religion (or a cult).
Their friends are idiots. The people they look up to are idiots. It’s extremely difficult to separate someone from their “tribe” because that’s where they feel safest.
You can use logic and reality with them only until they run back to is their faith.
Americanism is a new religion. Good luck reasoning with it.
Appropriately enough the phrase "seed of doubt" is often used in religious contexts :)