BOY, I wish that I was in your situation!
I was having dinner with my mother and stepfather while visiting family the other night. I mentioned that I liked Trump. Mom called me crazy and my stepdad all but called me a xenophobe Muslim-hater in front of the entire restaurant. If I’d had my own car there, I’d have walked out right then and spent the night in a hotel.
What am I supposed to do? They’re family, but that was completely unacceptable.
You have my sympathies. Probably best not to talk politics in your family. :-)
I was having dinner with my mother and stepfather while visiting family the other night. I mentioned that I liked Trump. Mom called me crazy and my stepdad all but called me a xenophobe Muslim-hater in front of the entire restaurant. If I'd had my own car there, I'd have walked out right then and spent the night in a hotel.What am I supposed to do? They're family, but that was completely unacceptable.
Not knowing the intricacies of your family relationship let me just say that what stepdad did was typical leftist PC bullying. The good news is that it's all they got, he used it all up right there in the restaurant, there is nothing beyond that intimidation. The even better news is that they crumble under the slightest pushback, and they learn lifelong lessons when that pushback is delivered forcefully.
So I would have jumped down his throat twice as loud and twice as hard with something like: "What did you just call me? Who the frig are you to tell me I'm a racist you idiotic terrorist enabler? How many beheadings and children need to be blown up before you take your head out of your ass? I'm Pro-American and will vote accordingly."
Even family requires an intervention now and then, and since your mom didn't reign him in it would be perfectly appropriate IMHO ( again, not knowing the details of the relationship ). Odds are you will have laid down an important and memorable marker for stepdad to not cross in the future and carved out your own space in his head.
If he is capable of reasoning you might give him access to beheading videos ( they are all available at LiveLeak ) and watch him squirm as he confronts his cognitive dissonance. Leftists live in a fantasy world and they will avoid leaving that world at all costs, but you can bring that world to them.