Getting along with rabid Trump supporters (not family!)

other - I live in an area that voted 79% for Trump in 2016 - I don't know a SINGLE person locally who supports Biden. And while I have very very few local friends, I'm not sure I'm okay unilaterally dropping them entirely

Not close. I just don’t feel the same way about them. I have never felt this way during a presidential election, but Trump is so bad on so many levels that I feel like I never really knew them. I’m not angry; I’m profoundly disappointed.

I have friends and relatives on both sides, and don't plan to get rid of any of them. Personally, I don't like either choice we were given. Both of them have serious flaws.

I don’t personally know anyone who is a rabid Trump supporter.

I know them, but am not friends with them.

Other. She lives far away. Visits this area several times a year and we do I lunch.

Family is a bigger problem to deal with, they are young adults victims of their environment. I love them dearly.

I live in a very red, rural area. This is the first time in my life, I’m almost 69, that politics has made a difference in how I feel about the people I associate with. I have unfollowed and snoozed the more outspoken trump humpers on my FB feed, and I have not hesitated to express my disgust for trump and his cronies and my support for Biden on FB and to anyone who initiates a political conversation. I know this has caused some acquaintances to think less of me, but I don’t care and have made it plain that I will not change my views b/c at this point it is a moral rather than political stance. I have heard secondhand feedback asking what is wrong with me and how can I support socialists and people who want to destroy America and take all our rights away coming from people I liked and respected.

I do have a few friends who are Democrats, and thankfully my NY family also feel the way I do. I get my moral support from them and from reading this board and Heather Cox Richardson. You all have helped me weather the storm of trump support that I see and hear on an almost daily basis, and I thank you!

I am saddened, sickened and demoralized by what out country has become, and the political tone the predominates my town, county and state has made me question the love I have always felt for my home of 35+ years. I honestly do not know what I will do if trump wins. And while I will be overjoyed with a Biden victory, I am dreading the barrage of anti-Democratic/Liberal rhetoric that I will encounter over the next 4 years. It is a very depressing prospect, and I am at a loss of how to deal with it.

I voted "other."

I have some Trump supporters who are only supporting him because of abortion/SCOTUS/"freedom of religion." They do not post daily about him, but they do not denounce him either. They do not pop up on my facebook posts defending him. They are the ones who hold their noses and vote for him because they can't imagine ever voting for a liberal. As long as they are not in my face about it, I do not mind keeping them around. I imagine they probably pray for my sole every time I post anything pro-Biden.

There are others who are over-the-top MAGAs, and most of those have already been unfollowed on FB. I don't interact with or engage the others, so they have sort of fallen out of my fb feed. I have no desire to keep them around, and if Biden wins and they are totally obnoxious about it, they will be unfriended. Same goes for the first group I listed above. I just don't have the patience for it anymore--at some point these people are "irredeemable" as friends.

As for people I am friends with in real life who are rabid trump supporters, I haven't seen any of them in person since March, so it hasn't really been a problem. One woman is ex-military, and I am going to have to work with her in a professional capacity after this is all over, regardless of how I feel about her position on trump. I unfollowed her a while ago, but I did take a peek at her fb page to see what was up with it, and she is all conspiracy, all the time. She reposts Q stuff. She doubles down on the "Obama spied on trump" crap, and the laptop has her foaming at the mouth because the "lamestream media refuses to report it." She was a journalism major as an undergrad, so that makes me even more incredulous at her position on this. She KNOWS that responsible journalists verify their sources, and this story has NO verified sources. I am predicting now that she will be insufferable after the election, and if so, I will not communicate with her beyond what is necessary for my job.

Even though I live in crimson-red WV, my local community is rather blue, and my university colleagues are pretty liberal, even within the business college, surprisingly. I would say the business college is purple, leaning to red, but the staff I work with are almost exclusively blue. I don't expect to have to worry too much about whether or not we will still be on friendly terms after the election.

And if Biden wins and decides to go along with court-packing, I CANNOT WAIT to reply with, "Oh well. Elections have consequences." to all the insufferable trump supporters on fb who have responded that way to every.single.horrible.thing. that trump did over the past 4 years.

It’s times like this when I’m glad I don’t have friends. I don’t have to worry about anyone else vote and don’t have to worry if they approve of my vote which by the way is private information. I wish more people would observe that.

I am really struggling with this.

I don't have many close friends, and most of the people I talk to the most are parents of my kids' friends. I have been really surprised at how many of them are either avid Trump supporters or those who say "I don't like everything he says or does, but I can't vote Democratic." I don't consider those people to all be lumped in the same group, but I don't give the latter a pass. I think they are still ignorant at best. Either they do truly believe in the things that this administration (and let's be honest, most of the current Republicans in office at any level) are doing or they have ignorant beliefs about what it means to be a Democrat or look deeper than the R or D label. I do have pretty gut level responses to those people right now. If Biden wins, that might fade for some of them. But I will never forget the things that many people have posted. I will be civil to them but won't seek out their friendship. And I am leary about sending my kids to hang out with theirs or go to their house.

I checked other because I made the decision, in 2016, not to let politics ruin my friendship with the person who's been my best friend since I was 15. I decided a friendship could be non-political. She made a different decision, calling me a "Hillary lover" (definitely not true - I don't particularly like HC, but I thought Trump was and is a worse choice). It's been very painful.

The worst part of this whole thing has been realizing that we walk among people who are so deluded and filled with hate. I feel very hopeless.

I have some friends/family who I know voted for trump but still believe in the virus and take precautions. We don’t discuss politics. I have some friends/family who voted for trump and think the virus is overblown or no big deal. I think my relationships with them may be a bit strained for awhile. Not just from my side as I know they feel a certain way about me too. But I’m hoping Biden can become our next president and with trump out of office our nation can heal a bit. I think he has caused much of this tension. And hopefully shortly down the road these relationships can be mended.

It would be extremely hard for me to cut out all the rabid trump friends and family in my life. I did unfriend an aunt of mine from facebook, and another good friend of my dh's. I live in a very red part of a blue state. It is also an environmental job area, that is supported by republicans. My dh is also republican. In all the years we have been married, we have never fought this much about politics until this President. It's sad really. He thinks Trump is an idiot, doesn't' like him at all, but is he going to vote for him? No. He will most likely vote independent. Which I told him is dumb. He just can't get behind Biden either, and honestly I have my doubts about Biden also, but will vote for him.

Here's the deal with being a republican or democrat. I find it very hard ot believe in the whole ticket, their whole agenda. My dh, aunt and friend are NOT racist. Nor do they not support LGBT. They support that. BUT they are all about the republican economics and business. My dh doesn't think Biden can or will do the same. Now me on the other hand..I believe in pro-choice, but I do not believe in late term abortions. Something my republican friends adamantly believe that we are doing. So that is why I would keep my republican friends. I enjoy a good conversation/discussion with my republican friends, but right now, we are talking a break from any discussions until after the election.

Has this clouded how I feel about some of my republican friends and family? For sure. Probably them for me also, being that I live in such a Red part of the state. My one friend told me, "you just don't fit in here, you should live in the cities". Yea, so that's what I've been feeling the last 35 years of not fitting in? It makes sense now.

I could have written this word for word almost.  
Do people in your rural, red area wear masks ?  Add this to my attitude towards my fellow neighbors.  I’m definitely in the small minority here.  Most of my friends from around here are showing me sides of them that is disturbing to me.  Sides of them that I never had any clue about.  

Trump’s damage to our country and our people will last for a very long time.