I have 2 GOP parents, one that voted Trump originally and one that did not. Over the last 9 years, I have watched them both travel down the MAGA pipeline to become visibly fascist. The parents who taught me racism was wrong and to have empathy for others, have become openly hostile about immigrants, Muslims, and even parrot the Nazi “great replacement” theory.
Part and parcel with this, they refuse to have any discussions about the facts – like immigrants not stealing and eating people’s pets. They won’t hear it, they won’t even engage in the conversation…they just get angry and loud the second they hear anything that doesn’t fit into the Fox News narrative. Can you relate? How are you dealing with it in your relationships with your parents?
I have not spoken with my fascist father in 11 months. Before that I spent years trying to reverse the brain washing. My mother moved out in 2021 because of his trump isolation. He told me that was the worst day of his life, I said if only there was a way to change that. He thought I meant make my mom become a fascist too.
This sounds a lot like my dad…minus the mom moving out bit…everything in the world, he looks at through MAGA-colored glasses. When groceries were expensive under Biden, he said it was all Biden’s fault. Now that it’s actually Trump’s fault from all the tariffs, all of a sudden grocery prices are “complicated.”
Like you, I spent a lot of time trying to un-brainwash him, and eventually gave up…he’s probably only got 1-2 years left, so I feel like I’m just riding it out, it’s just a shame that his final years have twisted him into something I think he wouldn’t have even recognized 25 years ago (it would be easier if it were dementia, but other than this MAGA cult shit, he’s still pretty sharp).