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What My Dad Has Taught Me About Trump Supporters.
Learning about their perspective has certainly been interesting,.
Given the fact that I’m an ardent Bernie Sanders supporter and my Dad is looking forward to voting once again for Donald Trump in November of 2020, it should go without saying that any sort of discussions about politics are tense to say the least. As frustrating as it was last time around, knowing everything that Donald Trump has done over the course of his administration while my Dad’s support for him has only grown has only made it worse. Nevertheless, I’ve had a pretty telling glimpse in to the mindset and rationale of the President’s base, and if anything it’s certainly taught me a lot about where they stand.
With my Dad the conversations about politics usually begin when one of us sends a link over Facebook messenger, and since the impeachment hearings started they’ve been coming with ever increasing frequency. As much as I try to ignore them’ occasionally I give in and take the bait.
In hindsight, considering how our past conversations have gone it probably shouldn’t have surprised me when my Dad called Ambassador Gordon Sondland a “leftist”.
To be clear, it’s a well known fact that Gordon Sondland is a man who gave one million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration. And…
