It's time for a new approach to dealing with Trumpy relatives during the holidays | Jill Filipovic

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : There's little question, in my mind, that racism and sexism (and especially sexism) remained animating forces in the 2024 election.
43% : But a run-of-the-mill cousin who voted for Trump because he listens to Joe Rogan?
40% : I do not to my knowledge have a single close friend or family member who voted for Trump.
39% : The first is capitulation and normalization: that liberals are doing exactly the same thing as too many business leaders, reporters and elected officials in treating Trump like any old politician - or, even worse, folding to his demands before he's even in power and breaking historian Timothy Snyder's first rule of resisting tyranny ("Do not obey in advance").
37% : We can share a Christmas ham with people who cast different ballots, even if their decisions frustrate or pain usAs Donald Trump prepares to enter his second term as president, one thing is conspicuously absent (other than Ivanka): the proliferation of articles about how to handle Trump-voting family members at the holidays.
37% : Data is still coming in, and exit polls are notoriously unreliable, but early indications suggest that Trump made huge inroads with Latino voters and significant ones with young and Black voters as well; the only voters he seemed to not do better with were white ones.
36% : I cannot imagine being married to a man who would vote for someone like Trump, and if I were, I would probably get divorced, because why in the world would you stay tied to someone who votes for a man who was happy to strip you of your most fundamental rights?
26% : I would struggle to be close friends with the kind of person who was either checked out enough to not grasp what Trump proposes or who was OK with his policies of cruelty, his corruption, his immorality and his plans to make America a far worse place.
19% : Part of what seems to motivate Trump voters is a sense of marginalization and rejection: that various groups (liberals, elites, the media, women) have at best serially disrespected them and at worst deemed them deplorable and irredeemable simply for being who they are; Trump hasn't just told them that's unfair, he has shown that he actually likes them and celebrates them and embraces the things they like.

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