it's been great to see the way this has all unfolded with my parents. both my parents have turned on Trump after voting for him in 2016, and iirc 2020 as well. or maybe just my dad did, i'm not sure.
my dad literally tore up his mail-in ballot and threw it in the trash. he's ranted a few times now about your standard "bOtH SiDeS" bullshit, claims it's all a three ring circus and the two parties are colluding with each other to just keep us at each others' throats so they can stay on top, and that neither party is going to do anything positive for the common people. he says it literally makes no difference whether there's a democrat or a republican in office. i tried to get him to see how he was wrong about this, since his breaking point in finally not supporting Trump anymore was the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and i told him that if a democrat had been in office instead of Trump, that wouldn't have happened. but he still refuses to believe that anything makes any difference.
my mom on the other hand. oh man. hell hath no fury. she voted Trump in 2016 because she didn't like Hillary, and she's regretted it almost ever since. she was appalled at the events of January 6th, which i correctly predicted would happen and she didn't believe me at the time, and then was also like my dad very disheartened at the overturning of Roe v. Wade. she's spent the last couple months constantly addicted to the political news cycle, including tuning into Fox News and Newsmax and rightwing propaganda outlets like that, she says so she can keep informed about the lies they are telling the MAGA cultists but i think it's mostly just so she can endlessly spout insults at the TV, directed toward Trump, Trump loyalists, MAGA cultists, the rightwing media itself. she is fervent about it.
and when she's not doing that, she's getting into paragraphs long Facebook arguments with family friends she has known for literal decades that have been brainwashed into the MAGA cult, with absolutely nothing to show for it because these people are completely and entirely divorced from reality. she finally had to mute and block the worst two or three offenders, though she refuses to outright unfriend them.
There is hope of escaping the cult. Your mom is a good example of that.
My dad has left the cult too, but... like I said, his views were always bad. Trump just enabled them.
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I'm pretty done, slap me 'round for fun. https://imgur.com/o21DN7r