On the subject of lib dads, my almost 80 year old “progressive” liberal father still thinks the Democrats are these leftwing pillars of opposition to Trump, who is the cause of the US’s slide into fascism rather than a symptom (an inevitability of the fascism that has always been embedded in US liberal “democracy”). He was using my own reliance on SNAP and how I wouldn’t be able to get food this month as proof that I was foolish to oppose the Democratic Party, telling me “I know you think Democrats and Republicans are the same, but you wouldn’t be losing your only way to buy food if a Democrat was president!” When I tried to start explaining the Overton Window to him, he said “There’s still a left and a right and the Democrats are on the left,” and refused to speak to me further when I said something about how that was like thinking the Wiemar Republic was a great left wing pillar of opposition to the rise of the right in 1920s Germany.

I have little doubt that he’ll see this pathetic caving by the Dems and think it was an unfortunate but necessary political move made because the good Democrats really want to help poor people get their benefits back. He used to watch Amy Goodman and likes the Motorcycle Diaries movie so he thinks he’s a leftist.