For instance, I have an aunt who is definitely MAGA, and is flirting with Q-Anon ideas. However, she has pretty good views on the environment and animal rights. For instance, after travelling to Ecuador, she donates to some Ecuadorian land trust run by locals. However, if you start talking to her about the border or gender, she goes full Orbán.
I would love more Uncle Chen stories.
I feel the way towards him as I do towards a lot of leftcoms: I don’t agree but I respect where they’re coming from. I don’t disagree with the principles but rather just the pragmatism (like you said, dude probably would have started WW3 if he was in charge).
He would bathe twice a week until like 2005 because he thought domestic hot water was decadent and should sparsely be used. For most of his life, communal bathhouses were the norm in our part of China, so he'd go there every other day and just use cold water and soap if he couldn't be bothered. I have vague memories of some of the last ones in Wuhan being phased out in the late 90's so there was a few years there where my aunt would have to put up with terrible odour from the chain-smoking alcoholic, esp since how humid Wuhan is in the summer. Also it turns out lye soaps aren't too good for the skin after prolonged use, he had dry ass skin until my cousin swapped him over to some softer soaps.