Back in the US, heading from Hollywood to Disneyland with my ex girlfriend and her two kids (long story), and establish the driver is an Iranian immigrant of 30 years. He was reluctant to say Iran initially, I assumed because he'd dealt with prejudice in the past. So I thought the conversation would go in a particular direction.
I was wrong. Within a few minutes, he was telling me "the media is biased against Trump", "Democrats feed talking point lies to the media", "Hispanics are bringing strangers children and drugs into the country", "illegal immigrants are getting lots of money from the government at the cost of taxpayers", "Nancy Pelosi was talking about impeaching Trump today", and "Hispanics bringing in drugs are then taking drugs to Australia" (he conflated Australia and NZ where I am from the whole time). He has an issue with Chinese immigrants too but I missed what that was exactly.
I had an urge to start rebutting some of these claims, but opted to ride the remaining 50 minutes or so in relative silence.
Great to be back Stateside.