Tales of a Family Reunion Five Days Post-Election
On Sunday morning, November 10, I attended the christening in New Jersey of a beautiful, newly-arrived great-niece. At the reception afterward, there were about 50 adults in attendance. If I had to guess, I would say all of them voted, half or a little more for Trump and half or a little less for Harris.
The media would have you believe that ours is such a divided country that the reception would have ended in fireworks: the purple-haired college student calling her boomer uncle a fascist, the uncle calling his niece a commie pig, the girl’s father punching the uncle, the uncle shooting the girl and her father. No, we didn’t have nearly that kind of fun. Everyone behaved him or herself, much as anticipated.
True, after flying into Newark on Saturday, my conservative kin and I indulged in an hours-long Schadenfreude fest. Having gotten that out of our system, we behaved admirably on Sunday. That should not surprise anyone. Ours is a divided country only superficially. As we all understood at the Christening, blood, and shared culture
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