I never once said that midwits should be ignored, only that we should probably start distinguishing the two types of people who employ the ideological method. Repeating a lie doesn't necessarily make one a liar, after all, but the lie spreads nonetheless. In other words, to de-legitimise the dupes, de-legitimise the liars, and vice-versa. It's an uphill battle either way, since they outnumber us by several orders of magnitude.

Bear in mind, I had already written rather prolifically about this very phenomenon (i.e. the ideological method) by the time I first encountered the term "midwit." Now that I have a more specific term to work with than "useful idiot," it's time to update the lexicon, compile my thoughts in a much more concise fashion, and pry the great grift wide open.