Couple things about this: - Many respondents are saying no as a kind of conservative virtue signaling, in that the family, as a unit, is *the* most important structure in the country and to suggest that you would purposefully tear apart that unit would be a contradiction in values.
- I would wager that a good chunk of those 89% of Trump voters who said no would readily kick their visibly queer kid out of their house (and some probably have!) and are filing that under something other than politics in their understanding of the question
To a lot of these people politics is just stuff they don’t support. So kicking a kid out for being queer isn’t political but being openly queer is a politic.
I think that's correct but also (I believe?) would run up against the point I'm making lol (which is maybe what you're doing but the tone of this is so agreeable!)
I think I’m agreeing with you though. They say no I would not break off contact because of politics because they don’t see their actions as political when they do something like kick out a queer child.
So I re-read the question and now I get what you're saying. It's not about "opposing political views" because that implies two people doing politics, instead one person is being political. I gotcha.
- While I do think more americans have an emotional stake in politics than they ever have in my lifetime, I also think a good chunk of those 'non-voters' have a narrow view of what constitutes politics and simply can't imagine going no-contact over how someone voted.