I know too many people who voted for him, too, and it's like a betrayal I wish I could forgive. But I just can't. It tells me that you care more about never having to challenge your worldview than you do about my right to exist, about respect for people who are different.

And I wish I didn't have to think about that every time I think about a "friend" who voted for him. But to me, it proves, in a very real way, that those "friends" don't give a shit about me or the values that are important to me. I will never be able to trust them.

The worst part is that I can't even talk about this on a personal level; if I try to talk about any political issue and how it affects me, personally, people build the wall and push back like it's an attack. I'm not heard. I am rendered invisible and my feelings don't matter.

I don't think people really understand how badly this administration has severed personal relationships in likely irreparable ways. There's no way for me to think of someone who voted for 45 as a friend, or someone who supports me. I just can't see it.