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Slippery slope arguments aren’t good arguments.

They are good arguments as long as you can show evidence the slope is slippery. The slippery slope fallacy isn't that slippery slopes don't exist, it is that they are asserted without evidence.

Fair… but but even one cycle of cause/effect is difficult to provide evidence for, let alone a cascade of causes and effects which sum to a slippery slope.

Slippery slope arguments would need entire dissertations of evidence to even be plausibly considered, and yet they’re one of the most common methods of naysaying.

While you’re technically correct, I’m functionally correct.

Evidence of the slipperiness is also insufficient. Youre really lookingfor an inductive argument where each step implies the next one.

Showing that you can get n+3 via separate evidence for n+1, n+2, and n+3 says nothing about n+7

do political things not start, get normalized, then serve as a foundation on which new trends can build?

They absolutely do. Everything starts from today, regardless of what yesterday looked like. But the new trend can go in any direction, including a major reversal from whatever the last trend was.

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