Losing friends over politics is a good thing. It’s a discovery of the truth: You don’t have the same ideals. Ideals matter.

I have thought I liked certain people until I discover the envy, implicit nastiness and general depravity underlying their deranged opposition to Trump and corresponding embrace of socialism. I can no longer like someone once I stop respecting him.

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