I love reading this because I was somewhat similar. I wasn’t really a Democrat by the time of the Trump Presidency but these were still the people I spent the last decade plus being part of their tribe. I had a lot of cognitive dissonance of “well, I don’t like Trump or Republicans so yeah, but....” It’s a very unsettling feeling to hold a belief but know it’s weak or otherwise contradicts other things you believe.

For me, it was Russiagate, which I found gross and to be thin gruel, but also didn’t feel comfortable breaking with almost everyone I know. When I started reading Glenn and Matt it was a breath of fresh air to be greeted with an alternative point of view that I could intellectually engage with and - in this situation - find more persuasive.