3. De-Normalize Trump Voters
Liberals, you don’t have to agree with Trump voters, hang out with them, or like them. But your efforts to bar your Trump-supporting fellow Americans from polite society are only going to backfire on you.
Fresh off the high of accusing Trump-voting Americans of being next-of-kin to lynch mobs, Bouie declared: “There’s no such thing as a good Trump voter.” Many people took this maxim to heart. Dallas resident Henry Rosen announced “Trump voters are not welcome in [his] house this holiday.” Rather than continue a “20+ year tradition” of an after-the-holidays party at his house, Rosen cancelled the party so he would not have to invite anyone who voted for Trump.
Meanwhile, in Honolulu, Hawaii, a café advertised: “If you voted for Trump you cannot eat here! No Nazis.” (The owner backed down after the story went public.) In Skowhegan, Maine, a propane dealer recorded this little missal on his business’s answering machine: “If you voted for Donald Trump for president, I will no longer be delivering your gas. Please find someone else.”
It’s not just unhinged op-ed writers and business owners that have this problem: liberal family members are practically disowning their conservative kin over the election results. One man cancelled Christmas plans with his conservative relatives. Another lady moved her wedding so her fiancé’s Trump-supporting grandmother and aunt could not attend. Another woman told her own brother, a Trump voter, to stop texting her; she also decided to spend Thanksgiving away from her extended family rather than be around them.
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