When a “Make America Great Again” hat enters the room, some people act as if they’re in a horror film, whimpering: “This is no dream. This is really happening”— to quote Rosemary’s Baby. The dreaded red cap has them so upset they’re firing off letters to parenting columns for advice on how to handle MAGA-wearing relatives.
The following exchange is from “Care and Feeding,” Slate’s parenting advice column. While the columnist tries to talk the distressed relative off the ledge with words of calm — just back away slowly — she isn’t too far from the edge herself. She talks about President Donald Trump supporters as if they’re mentally deranged cultists consumed by the dark side of the force. “Not only are you motivated by an objection to bad forces in the world,” she advises the terrified relative, “but you also have the chance to be motivated by a desire to keep someone you love from being a part of bad forces in the world.”
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