I Thought Our Friendship Could Survive Different Political Views, But Then Trump Was Elected A Second Time

Noel has a large grin and a large laugh. He’s outgoing, authentic, and effortlessly social. So we deed it off.

Sure, each of america held governmental views that disgusted the other, but arsenic agelong arsenic we kept our authorities to ourselves, we were good.

All done Trump’s archetypal term, and close connected done Biden’s presidency, Noel and I kept our relationship going.

That meant Noel didn’t gripe excessively overmuch astir undocumented immigrants, teen parents, radical abusing the societal information net, oregon each the backing going into Baltimore’s struggling schools—a tender spot for maine since I’ve taught and worked successful Baltimore schools for galore years.

And I didn’t archer Noel that I deliberation of Trump each clip I container up a heap of canine waste.

We inactive had plentifulness to speech about. Our kids. Marriage. Food. Music. Sports. Work. Traffic. Plus, we laughed a lot. 

Noel has galore friends, and implicit the years, I’ve enjoyed Super Bowl parties and ping pong and Kan Jam games at his house.

And successful our bitterly divided nation, Noel and I felt similar we were doing our small portion to support the state from disintegrating.

Plus, if everyone saw the satellite the aforesaid way, beingness mightiness get a small dull.