Just wondering if your wife is still hanging out with this woman...
Actually, yes. And we still love her dearly. She is, bar none, the most clear headed, analytical, liberal I’ve ever met.
Nevertheless, to a degree, she has succumbed to the media onslaught brought against Trump.
I strongly suspect her position was an outlier, motivated by an unconscious attempt to reduce a paradigm-anxiety by aligning her judgement with the mainstream media narrative.
I also suspect my wife and my high regard for Trump, given this friend’s regard for our opinions, gives her pause such that she would prefer ignore that particular incongruity in her life.
She is, by no means, a “true believer,” and her opposition to Trump has manifest more as an nebulous distaste, than a full-throated, passionate, hatred.