Ana Navarro, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin stated they would not let politics “break up up” their households throughout the holidays, whereas Hostin and Goldberg disagreed, arguing that it is a “ethical concern.”
It has been practically one week since Donald Trump gained the presidential election — and now, with the vacations approaching, many People will doubtless need to determine whether or not or not they may put politics apart this Thanksgiving or minimize off relations who voted for one more candidate.
The View mentioned this matter on Tuesday’s new episode, with Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin disagreeing with their cohosts Ana Navarro, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Goldberg introduced up the query of whether or not or not folks ought to distance themselves from relations who voted for Trump throughout the holidays by sharing a clip of a Yale psychiatrist saying some folks ought to do exactly that.
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Navarro weighed in first, saying, “I believe all people must do what’s proper for them. I believe you’ll want to look into your self and if going to a household gathering or with mates the place it will stress you out, then do not go.”
She then famous that her husband Al’s youngsters voted for Trump and he has 13 grandchildren that he “refuses to not see” and can see them “come hell or excessive water.”
“He has informed them, ‘I can’t let politics break up up our household,'” she added.
Farah Griffin chimed in, saying that she’s “all for wholesome boundaries,” however believes “mashed potatoes are the nice equalizer.”
“You do not need to spend Thanksgiving by your self as a result of you possibly can’t put politics apart,” she defined. “I discover that daily and each job I’ve labored in and social circles I’ve run in, I have been round folks with completely different politics than me and it is by no means gotten in the way in which of getting friendships with them.”
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“I would not have had any mates,” she jokingly added, to which Haines stated, “I would not have had any holidays if I needed to solely decide those the place everybody agreed with me.”
Haines added she “verify[s] in” with herself for her personal psychological well being and “step[s] away” if needed. “But it surely’ll by no means be the defining level as a result of poisonous personalities do not have political affiliations, it is a character trait that sucks, and we’re all associated to folks like that. So no matter your cause is, I might by no means let my politics be the rationale that I do not present as much as see my household as a result of they will not all the time be there.”
Hostin then shared her ideas, saying that she disagrees as a result of she believes it isn’t a matter of politics, however morals.
“I actually do really feel that this candidate, President-elect Trump is only a completely different kind of candidate — from the issues he is stated and the issues he is achieved and the issues he’ll do — it is extra of an ethical concern for me, and I believe it is a ethical concern for lots of people,” she defined.
Hostin stated it was a “completely different” time after we had a Republican president like President George W. Bush.
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“You could not have agreed along with his insurance policies, however you did not really feel that he was a deeply flawed particular person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality,” she stated, to which Farah Griffin claimed that Democrats on the time did describe Bush as such.
“However you gotta admit, they’re very completely different figures,” Hostin continued, noting how folks like Griffin “warned us” about how “deeply flawed” Trump was. “So, I believe when folks really feel that somebody voted not solely in opposition to their households, however in opposition to them and people who they cherished. I believe it is okay to take a beat.”
Griffin argued that “you do not have to love him to respect the voters,” to which Goldberg chimed in and shared her ideas, saying, “I recognize the voters, however I’ll say someone who tells me that my baby is mistaken due to how she or he feels that tells me that they should not be allowed to be who they’re with my permission, I’ve to query it.”
“I do not need to put my child in that place,” she continued. “I do not need to put my homosexual baby able the place she has to sit down with somebody who would not perceive her, and feels that it is okay to blurt all that out. That is simply me.”
Goldberg added that she feels the “similar approach” about blended households. “There are particular issues the place you do not have to place your loved ones in the midst of it. You possibly can have dinner at one other level nevertheless it may not be the time to collect as a result of you realize that there is gonna be some stress.”
