There are millions of similar ancedotes around the country. Family and friends completely and irrevocably rejecting each other over political divisions. This is how civil wars start.
Yep. I've got some family members that wouldn't lift a finger if they knew that I was being shipped off to the gulag for re-education.
I can see that families are about to start dividing along ideological lines, with liberal kids marrying liberals, and conservative kids marrying conservatives.
I've already told my daughter that when she gets old enough to date, that I'm going to test all of her beaus on their political leanings. She knows that libs are verboten, and that they'll be tossed from the front porch.