In the immediate aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s election loss in 2016, we saw women sobbing at the Javits Center and heard others tell of how they vomited when they realized Donald Trump had prevailed.
In the following weeks, we saw even more hot takes: articles about women who couldn’t stop crying, women who had given up dating, women who had cut off their hair or dyed it black to do … something … to address their pain.
We’re now two years in, and New York Magazine’s Intelligencer is tackling the problem of Trump’s presidency ruining marriages.
How conflict over politics is testing, or even ending, relationships https://t.co/cMurucFk7P
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) November 27, 2018
Shocking:
"I started a group called Indivisible St Louis. I think Geoffrey figured it would be like the needlepoint pillow I never finished." https://t.co/QnwGZJiUzW pic.twitter.com/u8T8UpDB5O
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) November 27, 2018
Molly Langmuir writes about John, 50, and his wife, Samantha, also 50:
Pre-Trump, we got into it now and then, probably on something about women’s reproductive rights. But it was a fraction of what’s happened since. Back then, Samantha was also much, much, much less engaged in political and civic life. She’s gone from zero to 60. And while I think I hate Trump as much as she does, Samantha is much angrier and almost more obsessed with it. The flip side is it’s also given her a new community and some new projects that have been meaningful to her.
It’s friendly differences; other than that, it’s also deadly serious. When I talk about things like Brett Kavanaugh, for example, I have a far less innately insane — well, not insane — passionately hostile reaction to him than she does. I knew she was foaming at the mouth about him even before Dr. Ford came forward.
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So, they both hate Trump, but she’s much angrier and more obsessed. The problem is he doesn’t hate Trump enough.
Activist women who are thinking of leaving their husbands. Why? They both hate Trump, but those bastards don't hate him enough. https://t.co/gDzCx8akqt
— Kay Hymowitz (@KayHymowitz) November 28, 2018
Woah…
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) November 28, 2018
That’s a severe case of TDS
— Kevin (@pokerwolverine) November 28, 2018
Seek psychological help
— 10% Genius (@kwinthorpe3) November 28, 2018
Whomever these people are, they desperately need the help of a mental health professional.
— Remember Scalia (@469Matt) November 28, 2018
Please seek mental help. This is beyond parody.
— KyleF (@KF1776FIKLE) November 28, 2018
That's just sick and twisted. I will never understand this kind of mentality. When hatred rules your life, all you'll find in life is more bitterness and hatred.
— ❄️ Mrs. ENFP (@LadyRadiance_) November 28, 2018
It gets tedious feigning disgust with Trump 24/7
— Freeta Goodholm (@Ihate_Airplanes) November 28, 2018
I wrote about the “not hating him enough” phenomenon, and how it was ending friendships, in Dec 2016. https://t.co/z0gRv9Te4O Next step, ending marriages.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 28, 2018
Liberal women sound like just the worst to live with
— Cal (@CTunes3) November 28, 2018
Activist leftist women hate men, in general. Why are they even married to begin with?
— (((+))) (@QuietNotKept) November 28, 2018
I’ve seen some activist women. This doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is some poor fool married them in the first place.
— Eric (@elane1013) November 28, 2018
Im sorry but … because they don't hate something enough you are divorcing them? This is a parody right?
— Micheal J Watts (@Eyehgofukyaself) November 28, 2018
Pretty sure those marriages were doomed anyway ?
— Reality Check (@UsetaBeBlonde) November 28, 2018
I remember multiple women on the left after the election announcing they were postponing marriage or childbirth because of Trump. Wonder how they’re doing.
— UnderCover (@Pynch1999) November 28, 2018
Remember how actress Amber Tamblyn was considering giving up her unborn daughter to a Canadian or Swede so that she would escape Trump’s America? They’re not doing well.
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Nasty women who once held up 'Stronger Together' signs now coming apart at the hair salon https://t.co/AQ9w4YhrMK
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 9, 2016
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