My own experiences with introducing the red pill gently have been inconsistent.
With conservative normies, I find that it's best to avoid setting unrealistic timelines. They all want to see HRC and Hussein frogmarched yesterday, and they have a difficult time with the "Trust the Plan…it takes time" stuff.
With liberal normies, they are simply not ready to hear anything that casts positive light on POTUS or negative light on HRC or Hussein. The best approach is to plant a seed about corruption within something they don't see as a partisan issue. My best results have been around Big Pharma and the opioid crisis. Personally I would like to see some big BOOMS in the Big Pharma area because the vast majority of Americans would be able to understand this. They would be pissed, but they can at least wrap their heads around it without putting up their reflexive partisan guard.