It's mind-blowing how many people will vote against their own best interests and the people they love. Take my mother-in-law, for example. She’s disabled and relies on disability benefits, and her sister—who MIL is the legal guardian of—is also disabled and dependent on the same support. My mother-in-law has faced so much hardship, including multiple miscarriages, sexual assault, and abuse. Her daughtet is bisexual and married to a woman (me)
All of these things are directly under attack by Trump and his allies.
Yet, my mother-in-law and her husband are die-hard Trump supporters. In fact, my father-in-law went so far as to say back in October that if Kamala won, it would "trigger the ritual to summon the anti-Christ." That’s how deep their beliefs go.
Just today, she was talking about how happy it made her to see other disabled people working at Walmart, specifically an autistic man and a woman with Down syndrome. She went on and on about how important it is for them to feel independent—though it came off as really infantilizing because she refered to them as a boy and girl and talked about them like children. When I pointed out that these workers might lose their jobs because Walmart plans to roll back its DEI programs, she completely shut it down, refusing to believe that had anything to do with Trump.