5 days ago
13 Families Torn Apart by Political Differences
Recently, we asked the friends, siblings, parents, and loved ones of MAGA supporters to share the "last straw" moments that broke their relationship. Here's what they said:
Note: Some responses have been edited for clarity.
"My father voted for Trump in 2016, even though I made it clear to him that he would try to get rid of Obamacare, which prevented insurance companies from discriminating against me as a recent survivor of stage 3 cancer."
"I am divorced now because my ex-husband's attempt at Trumpism was the final straw... He would come home and try to repeat the Trumpy rhetoric he heard on the radio, and he was too stupid to even get it right."
"I'm not even American but Australian, and my mum is English. That's how far this crap reaches. Trump is objectively bad for our native countries, and you'll still find people squawking this crap. How can you be pro-nationalist when it's hurting your own country... I dunno. Anyway, my mum isn't fully gone. But she seems to be getting a lot of her news from Instagram and social media post-COVID. Borderline anti-vax."
"I have no contact with any of my family thanks to asshole Trump. But they also don't like me because I'm gay, and trying to talk to them is just hopeless."
"I didn't even want to stop talking to my MAGA relative; it just became impossible to talk to them at all. Every conversation, no matter what we were talking about, devolved into the latest conspiracy theory and attempts to catch me in a 'gotcha' using Fox News-esque logic."
"My mom voted for him, and my sister and I both chewed her out for it because she voted for hate, she voted for a misogynistic felon, and most importantly, she voted against the interests of her two children and her very young granddaughter."
"I cut my brother out of my life on Nov. 6, 2024. He is a total MAGA. I told him I can't and won't have someone in my life that voted to negate the very existence of people I love."
"I called my dad out a few times on the hate and bigotry he spouts off about. Every time he tells me that I need to watch real news and that I have been brainwashed by the radical left into killing our country. He is completely blind to what is actually happening because Fox News keeps telling him it's all OK."
"My oldest son and his Venezuelan-born wife are dyed-in-the-wool Trumpers. While talking to him one day, he launched into a rant that Biden was too old to be president a second time. I responded that Trump was just four years younger, so I didn't see how four years was much of a talking point. When he started to list what was wrong about Biden, I said, 'That's it.' I didn't want to ever discuss Trump with him ever again. He went off about me refusing to talk to him again. I said, for a smart guy, he was being really dumb. I said I didn't say I was never talking to him again. I told him I was never discussing Trump with him ever again. He calmed down at that point."
"I hate that my parents' right-wing MAGA beliefs are being championed at their church and within Christian circles. My mother has worked in medicine for over 40 years (and very outwardly advocates for vaccines and preventative healthcare) and is deeply pro-choice, and yet still believes immigrants, Joe Biden, and the Fed (unironically, my husband's employer) are killing the country."
"My aunt constantly sends me right-wing shit on IG, including anti-trans rhetoric, knowing full well my best friend is trans. And best friend is not even a good enough term for them. They lived with me and my husband during COVID and were there when I walked out of the bathroom mid-miscarriage, sobbing. This friend has been there through my hardest moments, and I love them like family. My aunt? She and her kids hate the term 'chosen family.' Hmmm, wonder why."
"I mentioned to my aunt that the last 9 out of 10 recessions occurred under Republican leadership, according to Musk's AI. She said she did not believe anything from AI."
And finally, "During the first Trump administration, I was visiting my father and his wife in deep rural Georgia. As we were sitting down for breakfast one morning, they were telling me how a bad storm had recently knocked down several trees across their road, trapping them and their mostly well-off neighbors for a few days."
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