ABC/ Nicholas Fondacaro
It’s time to make your echo chamber great again.
In 2024, that means curating your world to exclude those who voted for the 45th and, now, 47th president, Donald J. Trump.
Especially if those voters are close friends or family members — slap the ban on them. Just say no to sharing a plate of Thanksgiving yams with your Trump-supporting aunt, even if she voted for Obama twice and Hillary in 2016.
It’s the doctor’s orders!
Last Friday, MSNBC’s resident Chicken Little, Joy “Democracy is Falling” Reid, welcomed to her show Yale psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Calhoun — who dished out a prescription for festering bitterness and loneliness.
“There is a societal norm that, if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time, and I think the answer is absolutely not,” Calhoun told Reid when talking about how to interact with Trump voters.
“So if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in ways that are against you, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why.”
Isn’t that what Festivus is for? To get together and air your grievances — the operative word being “together.”
Not for “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, who said on Tuesday she is in favor of ideological segregation for the holidays, calling it a “moral issue.”
She said pulling the lever for Trump is way worse than voting for George W. Bush because the former is a more “flawed” human being. In other words, the new guy we call Hitler is way worse than the old guy we used to call Hitler.
“And so I think when people feel that someone voted against not only their families, but against them, and against people that they loved … I think it’s OK to take a beat.”
Baked into this argument is an inherent selfishness. Why didn’t you think about ME and my delusions of oppression when you voted? Not your own interests.
It’s a sentiment that has been crop-dusted all over social media with TikTok videos and tweets accompanied by performative acts of resistance: women shaving heir heads in protest, staging sex strikes and wearing blue friendship bracelets.
The ex-communication movement has mostly sprung from the types who definitely have yard signs noting their tolerance (“In this house, we believe …” yada yada).
People like “Star Trek” actor George Takei, who is so out of touch he wants struggling Americans in the Rust Belt to think first of another country.
“Another reason to turn away from those who voted for Trump is because of the people of Ukraine,” he wrote on X Sunday, adding that “Trump voters sentenced so many of them to be ground beneath Putin’s boot. It’s unforgivable.”
And a Democrat named Rick Taylor, who ran a longshot bid for the Ohio senate seat won by JD Vance in 2020, took to X to call his aunt a “traitor” for supporting the bad orange man. And he will not be spending turkey day with her, thank you very much.
Ironically, his X bio says “still fighting to rebuild a coalition of the working class coalition.”
(Note: I am still not convinced this is a real person.)
One very viral tweet from a man with the handle @DerekNeverFails announced that he cut off his MAGA father and sister: “I will never, ever speak to them again. I’ll spit on their graves.”
He forgot to include that he’ll delete his account after being widely ridiculed (yep, that happened).
Personally, I’d like to see all these lunatics deliver their message to children in foster care, or to the scores of people affected by our epidemic of loneliness.
Instead of doing an autopsy of the Kamala Harris campaign to understand the loss, these Dems want to stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and scream to drown out any realities that are unpalatable to their worldview. Why try and comprehend how Trump built a multi-racial, working-class coalition when it’s easier to demonize those people instead? This method preserves their own virtue and moral superiority.
When Trump won in 2016, the shock, awe and outrage was widespread — and channeled into a full resistance movement. Libs marched in pink pussy hats and turned most of our institutions into anti-Trump vehicles.
The mood now is more punitive. More personal. More pathetic.
Gone are the days of putting on your big-girl and big-boy pants — and learning to get along.
That was once a wonderful feature of our society and, yes, even our government, as politicians duked it out all day and convened for drinks at night.
Trashing family and friends over a politician who doesn’t even know your name is a grave mistake and a testament to one’s fragility.
And if you’re participating in such partisan culling, here’s one hard truth: Your late grandmother is very disappointed in you for acting like a putz.