When I say they don't exist, there isn't enough from the loud and crazy minority to justify it as meaningful enough to respond to. What that leads to is extreme takes on the opposite end. Fighting extremes with extremes.
If he wasn't fighting a pretend war against the crazies, his own tales wouldn't be so extreme. Like usual, the truth is in the middle. The stuff to reason with is in the middle. Wasting time on anything else is pointless.