“My Mom Voted for Trump. Can We Let It Go?” Read the headline for The New York Times’ “The Ethicist” piece Friday.
The family dynamic no doubt is familiar to New York Times’ readers—the writer’s wife’s family members are committed Donald Trump haters, except his mother voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020.
The writer isn’t sure if his mother voted for Trump in 2024—and still the family wants to pile on her.
“I’m troubled by my mother’s support of someone I consider morally abhorrent and dangerous, especially when she voted in a former swing state,” the son wrote.
“With the result of the 2024 election, my wife and her family are directing their understandable fury at my mother.”
“Name withheld” added that his wife and her family plan to scold his mother for her choice, and “they don’t think I should expect them to be anything…
