My Mom's Support For Trump Divided Our Family. Then I Found The Crack In Her MAGA Armor.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Surprisingly, her depressed mood was less about Trump's defeat and more about her own foolishness in the certainty that Trump was a hero and savior.
58% : And we began, "Bless us our Lord and these Thy gifts ..." In the months that have followed, I have elected to continue the moratorium on political discourse and opted instead to explore our common ground -- which, I have discovered, is fertile and vast and refreshingly friendly.
50% : She voted for Trump again in 2020 but did not embrace the "big lie" that he'd won the election with anything close to enthusiasm.
47% : We stopped talking about everything except cursory questions about my life and detailed reports about her current ailments.
45% : I didn't reengage in political discourse with my mother, in spite of an obvious opening for a kill shot.
45% : I was hot when I reached the point of my diatribe, asking what I believe to be the single most important question I will ever ask my mom: "Will you please apologize to my children for voting for Trump?" I continued: "My fear is that, when Trump is seen through a clear and objective lens, the support you gave him will define you." A few days later, my mother, aka G-Ma and Grams, sat at the head of a round table.
42% : Before Trump secured the nomination, I argued that his morals were in direct conflict with those she and my father had been driving into my head for decades.
39% : My voice was shaky and weak as I began, but grew confident as the memory of each Trump atrocity was replayed in my mind -- his near-constant appeal to our worst instincts, his undisguised racism and Islamophobia, and his blaming of anyone and anything besides himself.
28% : Trump's recent conviction on 34 felony counts affirmed that her divorce from MAGA and Trump was the right choice.
23% : "I made a horrible mistake voting for Trump.

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