To contribute a “trick” that, in my experience, makes this easier, when you hear a political point, disentangle the empirical claims from the normative claims, and think to yourself, “Even if their empirical claims are correct, that doesn’t necessarily mean I should accept their normative claims. I should examine the two separately.”
In general, your internal type-checker should reject any and all mixing of descriptive and normative claims. It doesn’t matter if the domain is politics or chess.
To contribute a “trick” that, in my experience, makes this easier, when you hear a political point, disentangle the empirical claims from the normative claims, and think to yourself, “Even if their empirical claims are correct, that doesn’t necessarily mean I should accept their normative claims. I should examine the two separately.”
In general, your internal type-checker should reject any and all mixing of descriptive and normative claims. It doesn’t matter if the domain is politics or chess.
Yep, good advice. Disentangling descriptive from normative is a useful habit in general, not only in politics.