You do nor reward ignorance tit for tat. I usually like to follow the fall tree change. Once my then girlfriend and I followed the color chance south from Maine for a month. She wanted to photograph it. We stopped at a little old barn turned convenience store in West Virginia. Two fellows whittling on sticks were in front.
As I started browsing I would turn to one side of the aisle and there was always one of them looking at me suspiciously. On my way out they were on their boxes whittling away as usual. I stopped for a little chat.
I asked if they worked there. They said yes, they watched the store. I asked if there were lots of visitors like me passing through. One said no. I asked why he was following me. He said matter of factually that he did not want me to steal. I asked him if lots of stealing takes place. He said yes.
I realized he was not following me because of what we know up north as profiling. He was just following me because his people steal so much he associated everyone with needing to be watched and made no bones about hiding the fact he and his buddy were suspicious. It was his way.
The ignorant should not be met with ignorance. Trump people are just misdirected as to what should be their worry about. They have a demagogue doing the misdirecting and using their latent prejudice and suspicions to malicious ends.