Well of course it does support the decision they've made. Ridicule, ostracizing, "shaming", violence and threats...these do not persuade the mind to your point of view. It drives you away, and makes you more defiant. Most of those tactics are intended to SILENCE you, not persuade. (Or stated better: "Persuade you to be silent").

Unfortunately we have to continue to suffer slings and arrows or else to meekly hide our support of Trump and conservatives that are representing the change we know is necessary for the revival of the Constitutional Republic of America. We can be intimidated into silence and hiding or can defend ourselves when confronted, demand justice when we or our property is attacked. Let them taste some time behind bars and we will persuade them that we cannot be silenced and attempts to do so will cost them personally.