WHEN YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH LEFTIES HAVE INVESTED IN POLITICS, AND IT’S CRAZY: When Trump’s America Doesn’t Feel Like Home Anymore.

“I feel personally hurt by my neighbors, by my friends, by my teachers, by my coaches,” Smiley says — all the people who defined her childhood in the “very, very conservative” town of Rockford, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids with a population of around 6,000 people. “All the values of the Midwest — working hard and doing good and being kind — how can you turn your back on that … and vote for someone who has acted against and represents everything that is fundamentally against those values?”

You could ask them why they voted that way, but that would require talking to someone who is different from you.