Recently, we asked the friends, siblings, parents, and loved ones of MAGA supporters to share the “last straw” moments that broke their relationship. Here’s what they said:
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Note: Some responses have been edited for clarity.
1.“My father voted for Trump in 2016, even though I made it clear to him that he would try to get rid of Obamacare, which prevented insurance companies from discriminating against me as a recent survivor of stage 3 cancer.”
“I had switched jobs after defeating cancer, but was told by my new employer’s health insurance company that I would have to wait an additional year before I could gain access to the company’s healthcare plan. Waiting a year as a cancer survivor can be a death sentence because if you miss follow-up scans or blood work, you might miss catching a relapse of the disease. That changed when the ACA was held up in court, and it forced the insurance company to immediately provide me with the healthcare insurance I was entitled to. Trump was threatening to undo all of that. That wasn’t enough for my dad. He voted for him anyway. Two years later, he left and divorced my mother after 48 years of marriage. Trump divided and ripped our family apart.”
2.“I am divorced now because my ex-husband’s attempt at Trumpism was the final straw… He would come home and try to repeat the Trumpy rhetoric he heard on the radio, and he was too stupid to even get it right.”
“I don’t discuss politics with my MAGA family and friends. My brother thinks that the avian flu was a hoax by the Democrats, and only one chicken was sick, and that the Democrats are the reason the price of eggs was so high. I have my mom and one of my friends to talk to about politics and the horrors of Trumpism, and that helps. These are such scary times, and it keeps me up at night. What are we going to do?”
3.“I’m not even American but Australian, and my mum is English. That’s how far this crap reaches. Trump is objectively bad for our native countries, and you’ll still find people squawking this crap. How can you be pro-nationalist when it’s hurting your own country… I dunno. Anyway, my mum isn’t fully gone. But she seems to be getting a lot of her news from Instagram and social media post-COVID. Borderline anti-vax.”
“Ahead of the 2024 election, she asked how I thought it would go, and I said I thought it would be decided in the courts (I was referring to the Republican promises to sue over any crucial losses. Boy, was I wrong). Her voice lowered, and she asked me very sincerely if that was because ‘Biden’s plan to grant all illegal migrants the vote would be challenged.’ She’s not a stupid person. I think that’s the problem. She’s quite smart, and she hates the idea of having the wool pulled over her eyes. So she’s constantly stretching for the most out-there conspiracies because she wants to think she’s in the know.”
—Anonymous
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4.“I have no contact with any of my family thanks to asshole Trump. But they also don’t like me because I’m gay, and trying to talk to them is just hopeless.”
“One of my aunts said I pray you get over that. I’m 69, so no. Hypocrites all. They think Trump hung the moon. Makes me sick to my stomach that they can’t see what a fucking piece of shit this guy is.”
5.“I didn’t even want to stop talking to my MAGA relative; it just became impossible to talk to them at all. Every conversation, no matter what we were talking about, devolved into the latest conspiracy theory and attempts to catch me in a ‘gotcha’ using Fox News-esque logic.”
“I was very low contact with them when they passed. They were always a CNN person, and a conservative (but one that acknowledged a lot of shortcomings of their worldview), but after their spouse died, they found Fox News, and I watched them be radicalized in real time. It was shocking and sad.”
6.“My mom voted for him, and my sister and I both chewed her out for it because she voted for hate, she voted for a misogynistic felon, and most importantly, she voted against the interests of her two children and her very young granddaughter.”
“We tried talking to her about how awful he was and how much better Kamala was. She refused to listen. We’d tell her the heinous things he’s done, and her response was always, ‘I’m sure Biden’s done it, too.’ No. No, he has not. Decent people don’t do the shit he’s done.
We got into an argument about tariffs not too long ago. I was explaining to her why they’re bad. She tried to argue that it would bring things back to the states, and I had to explain again how it’s a cost to the consumer, especially since we don’t have the infrastructure to do our manufacturing. She scoffed at me. 🤦🏻♀️”
—Mo
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7.“I cut my brother out of my life on Nov. 6, 2024. He is a total MAGA. I told him I can’t and won’t have someone in my life that voted to negate the very existence of people I love.”
“My adopted oldest is nonbinary, and my youngest is pansexual and engaged to a trans woman. My brother is one of those people who doesn’t have much but firmly believes that taxing the rich is wrong because one day he will be rich and the government won’t take his money. News flash, unless he wins the lottery, he is never going to be a millionaire.”
8.“I called my dad out a few times on the hate and bigotry he spouts off about. Every time he tells me that I need to watch real news and that I have been brainwashed by the radical left into killing our country. He is completely blind to what is actually happening because Fox News keeps telling him it’s all OK.”
“There is no reasoning with MAGA. Members are brainwashed into giving up all critical thinking skills, all rational judgment, and all personal morality. They are taught not to think for themselves and parrot back the buzzwords their dear leader tells them to. You cannot present facts because, unless their group has told them it’s OK, they won’t believe any sources or research. Researching and finding the truth is a crime because Dear Leader tells us everything we need to know.”
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9.“My oldest son and his Venezuelan-born wife are dyed-in-the-wool Trumpers. While talking to him one day, he launched into a rant that Biden was too old to be president a second time. I responded that Trump was just four years younger, so I didn’t see how four years was much of a talking point. When he started to list what was wrong about Biden, I said, ‘That’s it.’ I didn’t want to ever discuss Trump with him ever again. He went off about me refusing to talk to him again. I said, for a smart guy, he was being really dumb. I said I didn’t say I was never talking to him again. I told him I was never discussing Trump with him ever again. He calmed down at that point.”
“A while later, they had a child. So they have a child born in the US. When her mom brought her two daughters to the US, they went through proper channels. She checks in with immigration as required. I just wonder if my grandson will be raised in the US or Venezuela, and if that happens, what will he think of his hero then?”
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10.“I hate that my parents’ right-wing MAGA beliefs are being championed at their church and within Christian circles. My mother has worked in medicine for over 40 years (and very outwardly advocates for vaccines and preventative healthcare) and is deeply pro-choice, and yet still believes immigrants, Joe Biden, and the Fed (unironically, my husband’s employer) are killing the country.”
“She doubles down on everything Karoline Leavitt says (even with factually incorrect parts). She also believes the MAGA lie that due process has never been for middle-class white people (which is INSANE at best). And their church backs up those beliefs (under what part of the Bible is beyond me).”
—anonymous
11.“My aunt constantly sends me right-wing shit on IG, including anti-trans rhetoric, knowing full well my best friend is trans. And best friend is not even a good enough term for them. They lived with me and my husband during COVID and were there when I walked out of the bathroom mid-miscarriage, sobbing. This friend has been there through my hardest moments, and I love them like family. My aunt? She and her kids hate the term ‘chosen family.’ Hmmm, wonder why.”
“It is also really upsetting because this side of the family is the side I was closest to growing up. And with all the new stuff, too, I just can’t excuse it anymore. Like, how can you still be OK with this cretin when he’s built a prison that looks like a concentration camp? Made food access even more difficult for the poorest of children? Is separating families just because…? It’s disgusting. At this point, I can’t see a Trump supporter, even my own family, and not just immediately think ‘that’s an evil person.'”
—Anonymous
12.“I mentioned to my aunt that the last 9 out of 10 recessions occurred under Republican leadership, according to Musk’s AI. She said she did not believe anything from AI.”
“I told her to google it, and she said she does not believe Google. I then said, ‘Look it up as history.’ She said she does not believe history either. The Great Depression was under Republican leadership, too!“
—Anonymous
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13.And finally, “During the first Trump administration, I was visiting my father and his wife in deep rural Georgia. As we were sitting down for breakfast one morning, they were telling me how a bad storm had recently knocked down several trees across their road, trapping them and their mostly well-off neighbors for a few days.”
“Until the trees could be removed, FEMA had come through and delivered food items, giving things out even when it was clear these people didn’t need food, ‘Such as this yummy jelly, for example,’ said my dad’s wife.
Later in the meal, they were complaining about all the socialists and freeloaders they have to support and how Trump would fix it. I pointed out that the jelly they accepted from FEMA is socialism, the government-funded tree removal was socialism, and their social security checks are, well, socialism. Socialism, I explained, is simply collecting taxes from everyone over time and then helping people when they most need it: in other words, the foundation of a civil society. She frowned and thought for a few minutes, then said: ‘Well, as long as you’re not a communist.’”
—Anonymous
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