Fit’s my nephew’s wife to a T. She is one of the few really nutty Leftists in the family, but she always held sway over family gatherings. When she was around, we all are expected to self-censor. She said anything she wanted, but we had to be careful not to upset HER. Some of this came from the fact she held the power of the grandchildren over my sister. If you pissed her off, she didn’t bring the kids over to see Nana. But regardless of the source the power was still the same. Now that my sister is gone and the boys are teenagers she’s lost most of her power. How is she handling it? She just doesn’t participate in family functions anymore. For most of us, that is not a huge loss.
Liberals are extremely tolerant of everything they agree with.
I had a similar (but different) dilemma in my family history. My MIL, God rest her soul, was a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue democrap. She would take any opportunity to belittle or diminish me, particularly when her son (my BIL) was around, which, for a time, was daily. Always talking about me and how little she thought of me. Oh, I forgot 5o mention, she was living with us; she had become unable to live alone, and as someone who wanted to honor her husband (loads of respect for him) we brought her to our home for her last few years. Yeah, those were tough.