I send my kids back to Kansas for a week every summer to stay with my parents. They’ve always been loving supportive, good people. Life long Republicans in the sense that they’d vote straight ballot because that’s what they were but never gave much thought, energy, etc to politics. Now the Fox News rot has set in and they went full on Maga and we don’t discuss politics whatsoever.
Last summer when my kids called to let me know they had made it (couple hour drive from the nearest airport), my youngest asked me what the Let’s Go Brandon flag flying on their house meant. I had her put me on speaker and told her to ask my mom (who I don’t think I’ve ever heard say a curse word in my life). She him’d and haw’d around it until I finally made her say it including the fuck and why they wanted that on their house. We then had a conversation about if that’s the type of people they want to be, if that’s how they raised me, if that’s the example they want to set for my kids, and if that’s the type of people I want around my kids. That seemed to get through to them and the flag came down.
We still don’t talk politics but my grandma (who hates Trump with a passion) told me that my mom told her that they’re supporting DeSantis (I know, no better), they wish Trump would just go away, and if it is Trump they just won’t vote.
We will see when push comes to shove, but at least it seems like a start.