How are your Republican friends reacting to Trump lately?

I haven’t spoken with my neighbors, but I’ve noticed they’re putting up more Fourth of July decorations than usual this year.

I don’t have any of those, sorry.

Stay the course!

They'll have the courts for the next fifty years, why on earth should they feel disillusioned?

The crazy MAGA people I know think he can do no wrong, so they love it.

The real Republicans I am actually friends with have been mostly horrified. They agree with some of his views, like cutting government spending, bombing Iran, and the illegal immigration, but they do not like the way he is going about it. They think the "Daddy's Back" stuff is ridiculous and tawdry. These people supported Jeb Bush/Michael Bloomberg/Nikki Haley.

Last summer I went to a block party in a red area. There were tons of Trump banners, Maga hats, etc. That was before the election. Went to the same block party last weekend not a Trump T shirt , banner, hat to be seen. I’m sure they still support him but the excitement seems to have faded.

My two MAGA co-workers haven't said a word about politics in the past couple of months. The more extreme of the two actually seems a bit distraught about the chaos the country is in:

"God must be so disappointed in us..."

Why would I have republican friends?

Some of us have many Republican co-workers, family members and acquaintances.

The one MAGA I speak to avoids all political conversations now.

If something comes up about prices, snatching people off the street or not being able to reach some government office, she’ll just say, “I didn’t vote for THAT”

If I ask what she thought she was voting for, it’s, “well, it wasn’t THAT”

But she did and she knows it.

Crickets.

A Latino family I know voted for Trump thinking he’d help ‘hardworking Americans.’ Now two of their own have been deported. No criminal record, just gone. One of them had been here over 20 years. The family’s gutted and furious. One of them said, ‘We basically voted to have our own people thrown out.’ Trump used them, then tossed them aside. That’s the reality.

Nobody is perfect, R9.

They love him

My brother avoids talking politics with my sister and me since we're both Democrats. I know he voted for Trump twice, and I suspect he did again in 2024. According to my sister, he recently muttered something about Trump wrecking the economy, to which she replied, "Are you surprised?" His business was tied closely to the stock market and small businesses, but these days, he doesn’t have the same spring in his step he had back in 2016.

The ones I work with are keeping quiet. The Democrats in my workplace are being more vocal…several were playing that clip of the Dutch queen mocking him and laughing at it and commenting “good for her making fun of that international embarrassment.”

People are still being brainwashed by every word coming from the Trump administration and Fox News.

I don't think any of them should be shown the politeness of silence. They sure as fuck aren't silents about Dems.

I would bring stuff up all the time around them just so they can see what it feels like

But these people never think of fairness or respect - it's all one way for them.

I'd love to know how others deal with them. I have both relatives and friends who support the imbecile in the White House. I'm conservative on some issues: firm believer in individual responsibility, don't think the government can provide every solution to your needs, the need for a strong military and leadership in the world being the top three. Sadly, that is not how the imbecile and his ilk define conservatism today.

As for those close to me who support this filth, I avoid talking to them about politics with them to maintain a civil relationship. One is an in-law who denies climate change. I suspect they hold anti-vaccination beliefs and now has a license to carry a concealed weapon. I was shocked when I heard that. I have no idea why they needed one. Perhaps it is for the coming apocalyptic struggle. I've come to realize this person is a moron.

The other close relatives and friends who support this imbecile are smart and know better. They disgust me.

How do you maintain familial or affectionate relationships with people who you know are smart but whose allegiance to an imbecile disgusts you?

Some members of my family have put their heads in the sand. They say all major tv networks, the ones that have been around for almost a century, all are speaking liberal trash and are TOTALLY biased for the Democrats. "The national newspapers are making stuff up," they say. "You can't believe anything you read in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today. New York Times and Washington Post."

These were free-thinking Americans thirty years ago. What has turned their eyes to mush? Germany worshipped Hitler, too. Look at how that turned out. They claimed they were sorry WW2 happened. They had the power, and they abandoned their principles.

[quote] Some members of my family have put their heads in the sand. They say all major tv networks, the ones that have been around for almost a century, all are speaking liberal trash and are TOTALLY biased for the Democrats. "The national newspapers are making stuff up," they say. "You can't believe anything you read in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today. New York Times and Washington Post."

That’s the exact manipulative, projective bullshit Trump keeps spewing. He’s hammered it into people’s heads so relentlessly that a frightening number of them have become full-blown brainwashed cult members.

They're mute - and I love the sound of their silence.

We’d like to believe that “respectable” Republicans are appalled at the cruelty and lawlessness of this current situation and that the rapid erosion of our rights and the ongoing attack on our institutions of education, science and public health would be alarming to everyone. But that’s not right. These people are silently applauding every action. They believed they were voting for small government but they don’t understand what that is. They’ve voted in the most controlling, intrusive government this country has ever seen. They think they voted to make this country great and strong but they have weakened it beyond comprehension in just the first 5 months. The ignorance of the American electorate is profound. At the end of the day this is just a horrible place run by and for horrible people. It’s a white trash nation. Thanks to these suckers and losers decent, intelligent people have to live this nightmare.

I’m sure there are people in red states grinning while immigrants are rounded up in blue cities. But just wait, when crops rot, restaurants close, and local industries stall, the economic hit will land right at their feet.

I have cut off all contact. They're impossible.

My very good, lovely great generous Catholic friend of over 40 years is a monster. He is a trust fund guy who lives in Pasadena. I always avoid politics with him. This Trump #2?term has freed him to practically beat his 70 year old chest with pride. The friendship is over. He speaks to name with contempt - with that sanctimonious shit that Mike John spouts. The deal breaker is his hatred of Gavin Newsom - he wants him arrested. He is THRILLED with these teams of ICE that are tackling and dragging people away. I a SO repulsed and disappointed. It is perfectly clear that he wouldn’t hide Anne Frank!

As with all sensible, committed Americans, including those posting here already, I don't have any Republican friends. And I respond with a blast of facts if anyone, including strangers, bother me in any way by indicating support of the gangrenous fascism that now runs the nation.

They are like vampires and their zombies, which is an insult to either species of the undead.

Curse them in the name of Lincoln.

R26 How could you possibly be friends with someone for over 40 years and not know they were like that?

The only people I know who voted for Trump are my parents, who always vote Republican and watch Fox News. They don’t talk about him anymore but if he was able to run for a third term they would vote for him again. Republicans always tow the line.

He has always been an odd duck. We met when I was 16 and we were in a group that did a lot of musical theatre together. During those years politics weren’t on my radar - except I was a Dem and my parents and others friends were , too.. As we got older there were many things in common - mostly music, movies, theatre etc. I didn’t see him for about 15 years and he seemed changed. Then it was during Covid that it became clear that it was bad. But it honestly was this new Trump term that has completely liberated him.

I have no Repug friends.

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Fuck,, I needed that.

[quote]But just wait, when crops rot, restaurants close, and local industries stall, the economic hit will land right at their feet.

And they’ll still refuse to acknowledge it was republican policies that caused it all

As soon as a Democrat is elected in 2028, they’ll immediately start proclaiming “the economy sucks because of AOC (or whoever it is)”.

My relatives in exurban Pennsylvania have been suspiciously quiet but only in their vocal supportof The Orange. They are getting old and now ihis policies will affect them.

The old man in his 90s , who hates our family for a few interracial marriages, is infamous among the rest of us for using the word JIGABOOS.

Now that he is faced with paying $15 thousand a month for elder care he wants to return to Canada. No one will take him in. As a dual Canadian citizen he is probably entitled to something.. not my problem.

Wait until big beautiful bill is passed. Lots of seniors rely on Medicare to pay for nursing homes. Their families won’t be happy when that is gone.

Oops I meant Medicaid. That’s where the big cuts are.

I promised my friend Adolf I wouldn't judge him because of his politics, which he had a right to.

The plan is so clear, but Americans are being led to the abbatoir with distractions.

If you wanted a society with a privileged class, served by low-paid able bodied workers, how would you do it? Take away education, limit healthcare, cut retirement security, destroy white collar jobs. Oh, and deport people.

They won’t be able bodied with no health care.

I know we all know this, but sometimes I just have to sit back and wonder how human beings can do this. They literally draft a bill to give tax cuts to billionaires and take health care away from people. I mean, how is our country composed of so many people with such moral failings? FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I cannot understand how we got here. It just makes me sick to my stomach.

I’ve always had this direction to corporate America: You can provide health care for your employees, you can pay them enough to buy it on their own, or you can let the government give it to them. Pick one. The only option that should not be available to you as a member of the human race is “None of the above. Let them die on the street.”

I don’t have Republican friends. I stay clear.

R9, that’s pitiful

People having MAGA friends is just atrocious.

If this turns out to be true, then it fits with what I was alluding to @ R7:

What I see from many on the right is an attitude of everything is bad but tRump was supposed to make it better, but he's not...so this world is irredeemable

They actually want poor people to die. I believe that. Think of all the people on dialysis. People waiting for life-saving surgery and care. People who will die without life-saving prescription medications. This is an extremely evil regime. And to top it all off, the women have crosses dangling from their ears and on full display at their chests. Don't get me started on their method for deportation. Doing all this wickedness while unabashedly claiming themselves as Christians! Jokes on them -

"For I tell you truly that what you have done to the least among you, you have also done to me." - Yeshua

Evil and very American. The mask is off and now we can see how barbaric and brutal this wretched country really is.

Like others here, I have no Republican friends. I do have a few MAGA family members, but we're not close and I never speak to them. Why would I? As for their recent reactions to Trump, their devotion has never wavered, as far as I can tell. Brainless people don't suddenly stop being brainless.

His first term I felt like he was a total moron. This term - the man is rancid evil. He scares me to death!

R6 - Not surprising.

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I cut off most of my Republican family when I came out a decade ago - the few who are left as "friends" on social media avoid me; most have blocked me. I have no idea whay they think but since they're 90% straight white Christian MAGAts who live in Florida I'm sure they're happy sick fucks.

[quote] His first term I felt like he was a total moron. This term - the man is rancid evil. He scares me to death!

He's still a total moron (with advanced dementia on top of it.) It's just that, this time, the strings of the marionette are being pulled exclusively by Christian Nationalists and out-and-out fascists.

I ‘lost’ most of my maga friends in the first round, so I don’t see/hear much. But recently I saw a few of them piling on another friend’s FB post, and it was an echo chamber. ‘The truth will finally be coming out soon!’ Then another and another ‘yeah, the truth’, ‘I can’t wait until everyone knows the truth’. Etc. It reminded me of Stepford Wives gone haywire. I’m sure they only watch Fox, and whatever other f’ed up networks are out there. Don’t they already have their version of the truth fed to them 24/7?

My husband voted for Trump. We rarely discuss it. I told him the minute he voted for that man that we would not talk about him in the house. He knows what I think. I think that these voters are in for the shock of their lives, and that this country has been ruined by a con artist. I also tell him that I am going to watch the nation fall to it's knees to get raped by the current moron in the White House. He still supports him but he knows I am right. I also told him that I am no longer an American who cares. That the racist, bigoted men and women who voted for and serve Trump will pull everything down to please him. Then I will laugh my ass off.

R54 - are you a woman?

I just can't see how people stay with people like this. A massive conflict of life values. But a lot of women stay with their Trump supporting husbands because of family or whatever.

R54 so you married someone who supports Trump's values? That doesn't give you a red flag that maybe he's not a good person?

I can't have a conversation with my sister, because she doesn't know anything about how our government runs and certainly nothing about policy. She's one of the majority of those who put this asshole back in the White House, who really know nothing except that Trump and the MAGA movement address their ambiguous rage. Fuck them. I'll be happy to see them go bankrupt.

I can't wait until the MAGA Republicans start to feel the effects of this administration, especially the bill that was passed today. I just hope enough peel away to wipe the Republicans out of power in 2026.

Ah lock eeeet

I don't know how true it is as of yet, but I saw on my FB feed that Harvard will be offering - free of charge - online classes pertaining to American government and how it works. And that's a damn good thing!

WHY THE FUCK WOULD I HAVE GOP FRIENDS??:?:?:

Jaysus H Christ. Are you an idiot?

The kind of people who are nice to you at the grocery store but wish you dead.

I have coworker who I still consider a friend, maybe a close acquaintance. After 2016 I made a conscious effort to stay in touch with her and just not talk about politics. But that has come to an end because politics cannot be blocked out anymore and things cannot just be swept under the carpet. So we never meet socially anymore.

I consider her generally a good person, misguided by her upbringing and asshole-husband. But like so many others here, I have a really hard time understanding how moral values and empathy applies to family and close friends only, and everybody beyond that circle is completely out of purview and fair game.

R7 here.

My co-worker must be going crazy over things like this.

When Leo was elevated, the first thing she said was "I hope he doesn't get political", as if caring about people isn't part of his job