The sub-topic is over for everybody, not just for Banks.
Banks can't acknowledge that the deaths of blue state citizens, of democratic party voters, of POC, was intentional on the part of the Trump administration. He keeps insisting it was "only" incompetence.
So, he cannot see the parallel.
Our repeating to him that the intentionality of those deaths creates a parallel is not going to get anywhere.
So, let us just accept that his sensitivity on this issue precludes dialog, drop it, and move on.
All of us.