Raising children is tough enough when you’re divorced, but what do you do when your former spouse is a RedHat wearing, MAGA-loving Trump supporter poisoning your young children’s minds?

That was the question asked to Slate’s parenting advice columnist by an exasperated mother of three whose young children repeat things their father tells them.   And the columnist has shocking blunt advice for the woman.

While she tries to be respectful of her ex while explaining to her children her opinions (and sometimes corrects incorrect “facts” told by their father), she can tell by her children’s statements that her ex-husband doesn’t demonstrate the same consideration, vilifying Democrats and liberal opinions.

What should she do, she asks.  Should she stoop to his level or should she take the “higher road”?

First, the columnist dismisses the concept of taking the higher road:  “Spoiler alert: It ends with over 100,000 Americans dead from COVID and millions more who might be considered brain-dead,” she writes.

But she goes on to explain that there are tactics to undermine fallacious conservative arguments (using facts and reason) without personally demeaning the children’s father.

The columnist concludes by reminding the mother that this is a battle for her children’s souls:  there is nothing the mother shouldn’t do to make sure her children grow up with respectful, intelligent political understanding.

“If your children become MAGA supporters, you will never be able to live with yourself, and most of us won’t be able to live with you, either,” columnist Jamilah Lemieux warns.  “This. Is. War. Godspeed, comrade.”