It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them and work to get to know them a little it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
If your man is a sports enthusiast you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight football game or pennant race.