When You Find out Your Best Friend is a Trump Supporter

The Bitter Truth of Political Betrayal

This article does not attempt to provide a detailed analysis of our political diversity but rather a raw description of the rotten feeling we get when we find out that our long-time progressive idea friends are now Trump supporters.

At the end of the day, we only get a glimpse of who our friends are, their personalities, and their motivations. We mostly go from pleasurable events to sitting in the living room and discussing amenities and things that bring us pleasure because that is what makes us want to have friends. But life has other plans for us.

Life has no obligation to bring us pleasure or to keep us safe, and accidents will happen. Life is filled with rough patches, and we never know what curve of the road they will appear; we only know they will show up more often than we believe they will.

However, rough patches have one fine quality: They define and expose who we are because when confronted with danger, it is nearly impossible to hide where we truly stand. What’s in our core, how brave we are, and our deep sense of integrity come to the surface, and we become naked for all to see. We are in such a moment in our world’s political sphere and begin to know who our friends are.