Curious if any other Pedes have lost friendships and even family members as a result of their outspoken support of our President.
I am a very publicly outspoken supporter of President Trump. I certainly have lost friends, colleagues, clients, even family members, but in my heart I know it is a worthy battle because I'm doing the right thing. If I lose some friends along the way, so be it.
I have been outcast by my husband's family. They are pretty much all as lefty as you can get (from the Seattle area). As soon as I mentioned that I wanted Trump to win in 2016, I was shunned and ignored by virtually all of them. It actually got bad, with them routinely sharing posts on Facebook (and to my husband), articles about 'divorcing your Trump-supporting partner', 'stages of mourning when you find out a loved one likes Trump', etc.
/shrug... wasn't much of a loss for me (plus, as a bonus, we live 700+ miles away from them, and I only have to see them maybe once a year - prior to Covid of course).
I would never visit them after what they did.
If it were up to me alone, I wouldn't. But we have 3 kids, and so I can bite my tongue for a few days out of the year, for their sake :) I definitely don't consider them my family - but I'll also not sink to their level and be bitchy about it.
Is your husband a lefty?
No, not really... (I'm still working on him, haha!). I'd say he's more of a moderate - he works in the oil field, so has been influenced by both sides of the coin. But he definitely acknowledges how insane his family is with TDS.
His family sounds toxic as hell.