MAGA Family. What to do, what to do?

A headline from a December 25, 2024 article by Joseph A. Wulfsohn says, “Bill Maher slams liberals cutting off family for the holidays over politics: ‘F---—off’”
 
A member of The Christian Left team loves his MAGA father. He has tried very hard over the last 20 years to maintain a relationship with him. His dad is 83 and he retired 25 years ago. He’s consumed a steady diet of Rush Limbaugh, Fox “News,” Tucker Carlson, and other conservative entertainment daily for as long as it's been around, since the days of Bill Clinton.
 
After the first 50 conversations ended with his father screaming, issuing the common insults, and saying "bulls---" over and over, he tried to establish a boundary with his dad when they talk or get together. No politics. Period. Ever.  But how do you get together with family when topics of life’s struggles inevitably come up? Conversations about life’s struggles lead to matters of politics most of the time. The following is a short conversation our colleague recently had with his father. It’s a list of insults he’s heard from him all his life.

What is a person to do with this? How do you move forward in a relationship with a person who views you this way? What if you don’t want to “cut them off?”
 
None of this is easy, and we know Trump 2.0 is going to make matters like this far worse. We would like to start a conversation about it. What do people do? How do they react? What do you do when toxic Republican brainwashing affects family relationships?
 
There are no simple answers to this problem. We’re looking for serious, thoughtful dialog.

If you have input please reply on the comment thread on the related Facebook post.

​Some of the stop comments on the thread include the following:

"The irony in this MAGA father's post is his description of other generations is actually the description of his. He is a white male from the post-war 1940s and 50s. He had no competition for jobs, college entrance, loans, etc. Sure, he worked, but so did everyone else. He had opportunities that ONLY HE WAS PRIVY TOO BECAUSE OF HIS GENDER AND RACE. He was the one who had everything given to him."

"Says the generation who literally got college for free, cars for $2000 and houses for $10,000. They got everything for free then cut us all off."

"My 82 yo mom took one look at Trump and declared him an idiot. I truly feel for the people who have to deal with MAGA family members, particularly parents. If cutting them off is not an option, the first thing I would do is read up on techniques for cult deprogramming from reliable sources."