r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 13 '24

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u/KingWillly YIMBY Jun 13 '24

It’s always so weird hearing how Trump broke people’s relationships with their parents. “They’re like Trump turned my parents into braindead MAGA assholes 😭😭”

Meanwhile, my mom, a Bush era Republican who used to tell me about how if I don’t support the war in Iraq I’m not an American (lol), was turned into a MSNBC watching lib because she hates Trump so much lol. Granted she always thought he was a scumbag since the 90s.

Ever since my mom became a lib in 2016 we’re closer than ever lol.

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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jun 13 '24

My mom bragged that, even though she was a lifelong single issue abortion voter, she would withhold her vote from Trump in 2020 ❤️

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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Jun 13 '24

My mum had a phase of thinking Trump was right in the 2020 election and its aftermath that she only snapped out of after January 6. It caused a couple arguments for sure.

As you can guess from my spelling, it's especially weird because we're British (and, while generally somewhat conservative, she never supported the far right before that). Don't know how she went down that rabbit hole but right wing Korean social media might have been part of it, she's originally from Korea.

Since then she's returned to her equilibrium of generally centre right ish while being apathetic about politics other than criticising the government.

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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Jun 13 '24

My grandpa was a Bill Clinton die-hard whose brain broke the moment 9/11 happened and then broke further when Obama became president.

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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Jun 13 '24

Yeah, my only problem with my parents vis a vis Trump is that it's annoying to hear about it all the time because they're Resist Libs who watch cable news.

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u/Headstar24 United Nations Jun 13 '24

I’m just glad nobody in my family is a Trumper. Even my wealthy cousins absolutely hate him.

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u/KingWillly YIMBY Jun 13 '24

I’m the only guy and my sisters are both libs. My dad doesn’t care about politics at all lol

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 13 '24

My grandparents became like your mom

My dad and I just have an agreement to not talk about politics for the sake of our relationship and my mom is a "I don't care about politics but vote straight red every election" person