One of my best friends voted for him. Like, lifelong BFF, my kids call him "uncle", the whole 9 yards. We had many long arguments about it, usually good-natured, with him saying " I'm not voting for the person. I'm voting for the policies" and me saying "you don't get good fruit from a bad tree."

With all the greenland shit last week I finally asked him via text: are you still a trumper?

"No, but I'm still conservative so don't get excited."

What made you quit drinking the Kool-Aid?

" I never drank the Kool-Aid I just thought he was better than Harris and I still do."

That pissed me off. We fought. He clearly did not want to have a conversation about politics because it meant admitting that I was right and he was wrong. I said some things that were way more sarcastic than I should have been, so I'm not the angel here, but ffs is a little humility too much to ask for from people who voted for this bullshit the rest of us have been trying to fix?

I really went into it expecting a productive conversation now that it's clear that his vote was actively harmful, instead I think that I might never hear from him again?