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Posted on 11/21/2025 4:51:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
My close friends blame me for everything that Donald Trump does.
One year ago I, a lifelong Democrat, wrote in The Free Press that I had just voted for Trump. I realized that my party had turned its back on working-class families like my own—in favor of identity politics, free trade, and open borders.
Many people warned me about publishing the essay. They told me the reaction would be brutal, and they were right. Strangers on the internet relentlessly harassed me. Death threats flooded my inboxes. People accused me of being a Russian asset.
They also told me that the left would use it against me when I tried to critique the way the United States was governed in the future.
They were right about that, too.
Over the past several months, I’ve seen many examples online of Trump supporters who express regret for their vote and are immediately demeaned, with comments like: “I never thought the leopards would eat my face!” or “You voted for this!”
Democrats had swung so wildly away from the party I once knew, and they needed a hard reset to find themselves again.
Let’s get this straight: I don’t regret leaving the Democratic Party. During Trump’s second term, the president has done many things I support: secure the border; rein in diversity, equity, and inclusion policies; broker foreign peace deals; and try to bring back manufacturing jobs.
Millions of former Democrats cast the same ballot as I did in 2024. We were disgusted—and desperate. And the story of our being demonized for doing so has been told before. The bigger story is that the same demonization is still happening—not only to hardcore Trump supporters but to those who dare to approach the biggest issues of our day with nuance or, even worse, to change their minds.
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It’s been forever since the Dims were a political party. They’re more of a cult now.
Read the comments at the article for examples of what she has experienced. As usual, the Democrats are the ones who make the most hateful comments.
“ My close friends blame me for everything that Donald Trump does.”
Welcome to it
My friends blame Trump for everything that does or doesn’t happen
Along with the world
On gutfeld they were talking about the seditious act of the six senators. Timpf spits out ‘it wasn’t helpful’. She won’t say Trump any more than Crockett will say it’s her fault for falsely accusing a senator for taking Epstein money
Timpf was so satisfied to say something hateful about Trump that she neglected to mention any reaction to 6 seditious congressmen in office
Today I had to hear ‘why is Trump letting Tina peters rot in jail?”
Em…he’s not. Colorado is. It’s beyond and out of trumps jurisdiction
It is sick
As the twig is bent so the tree grows.
Flak is thickest when right over the target.
votes are meant to be kept private for a reason ...
It’s horrible having eggs go from $8.50 to $2.50 per dozen.
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