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One of the hallmarks of conservative thinking is the acknowledgement that politics isn’t everything. Some things transcend – or should transcend – that earthbound, combative cesspit: God, family, and country, to name three. Of course, politics necessarily comes into play in the ways we approach and engage with those transcendent things. But conservatives by and large are able to keep politics compartmentalized in our daily lives.
The Left however, which believes “the personal is the political” (and vice versa), has made an idol of social justice activism and has made politics inescapable; everything from sports to bathrooms to Thanksgiving has been turned into a political battleground. Family relationships aren’t off-limits either.
Molly McNearney is the head writer and executive producer of the faltering late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. She also happens to be the wife of host Jimmy Kimmel, who over the years has helped turn late-night TV into a megaphone for divisive, anti-Trump propaganda instead of light entertainment for all Americans. Recently he postured as a martyr for free speech by claiming Donald Trump tried to censor him for the ugly falsehoods Kimmel spews almost nightly about the President and other conservatives.
McNearney appeared on a recent episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast where she demonstrated that Democrats firmly believe politics is thicker than blood. In her case, as with many, many of her ilk, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has led to the intolerant rejection of family members who do not share her progressive worldview.
She admitted as much on the podcast, stating, for example, that she badgered family members prior to the 2024 election, pressuring them to vote for her candidate – the corrupt, hate-mongering, mentally decrepit incumbent Joe Biden.
“I’ve sent many emails to my family, like right before the election, saying, ‘I’m begging you,” she said on the podcast. “‘Here’s the 10 reasons not to vote for this guy. Please don’t.’ And I either got ignored by 90% of them or got truly insane response from a few.”
By “truly insane responses,” what she probably meant is that some family members chose to push back against her hectoring with their own reasons for voting for Trump. And obviously, for obsessive Democrats like McNearney, anyone voting for Trump clearly could only be “truly insane.”
“It hurts me so much,” she continued in her grating, Kardashian-style vocal fry, “because of the personal relationships I now have, where my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family,” she explained bizarrely, as if friends and family members should be voting not for the man they believe will be best for the country but for the man who will be best for Jimmy and Molly Kimmel. “And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it,” she added.
What did she expect? Adults like to make their own informed decisions about their political choices. They don’t like to be lectured by privileged elites like the Kimmels, and treated like they are, as McNearney condescendingly put it, “being deliberately misinformed, every day, and they believe it.”
It doesn’t seem to occur to her that Americans are being deliberately misinformed, every day, but by the Left-dominated mainstream media, which includes the Kimmels themselves.
She went on to say during the podcast that she is “in constant conflict and I’m angry all the time” at her family. You know what would resolve that, Mrs. Kimmel? Quit causing the conflict and quit letting politics get between you and your loved ones. There is more to life and more to talk about than politics (unless you’re a Democrat), so make the loving effort to find some other ways to relate to your family members that do not involve treating them like benighted bigots.
But no. Molly McNearney admits she personalizes everything, so when the news upsets her, she immediately gets mad at the aunts, uncles, and cousins who helped put the Trump administration in power. Then, on the podcast, she made a revealing admission: “I wish I could deprogram myself in some way.”
Mrs. Kimmel unwittingly hit upon both the problem – that her wokeness and TDS have been programmed into her because she lives and works in Hollywood, the most conformist of all Left-wing bubbles – and the solution – that she could get rid of her anger and heal her family rift by freeing herself of that Left-wing brainwashing. But embracing that solution is a bridge too far for celebrity elites.
“It’s definitely caused a strain,” she continued as the register of her buzzsaw-like voice sank deeper than her husband’s. “I’ve definitely pulled in closer with the family that I feel more aligned with, and I hate that this has happened, you know, it feels silly, you know, part of me goes, ‘Don’t let politics get in the way.’ But to me this isn’t politics. It’s, it’s truly values and we just, we’re not aligned anymore,” she said.
She’s right about one thing, at least: the fact that there is no alignment whatsoever between the values of Left and Right. The Left is the party of assassinating its opponents and then openly celebrating it; the Right is the party of debating opponents. The Left is the party of opening borders and rigging elections in order to seize permanent, single-party hegemony; the Right is the party of protecting our borders and election integrity. The Left is the party of defunding police and emptying prisons; the Right is the party of law and order, to ensure the flourishing and safety of society. The Left is the party of sexualizing children and dismantling families; the Right is the party of protecting innocence and parental rights. I could go on and on, but the point is that there is no political unity possible anymore in America.
Individuals, however, especially family members, can still transcend all that and relate to each other as human beings. Unless, of course, you are a Democrat.
🚨 NEW: Jimmy Kimmel’s Wife & Show Producer Molly McNearney Says She is Losing Relationships w/ Her Trump-Voting Family, Wishes She Could ‘Deprogram’ Herself
“To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family … This is not just Republican… pic.twitter.com/gLPZUJ979K
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