Momma should i run for president

But she may not govern in this way unless the rest of us raise our voices. Contact us at letters time. By Gwendolyn Mink. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Need help? Visit our Help Center. Many of his backers admire his moves to overhaul immigration, his appointment of conservative judges, his willingness to throw convention to the wind and his harsh rhetoric, which they call straight talk.

Democrats and other critics see the former real estate developer and reality show personality as a threat to American democracy, a serial liar and a racist who mismanaged the novel coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than , people in the United States so far. Now, with Trump trailing Biden in opinion polls, people are beginning to ask whether the fractures caused by one of the most polarizing presidencies in U.

Most often she sees clients who have political rifts with siblings, parents or in-laws, as opposed to spouses. The two still spend time together, although she is now based in Vancouver, he in Alaska. Two of her grandchildren no longer speak to her because of her support for Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago.

She has also become estranged from other relatives and friends who are Trump supporters. She is not sure those rifts with friends and family will ever mend, because each believes the other to have a totally alien value system.

Democratic voter Rosanna Guadagno, 49, said her brother disowned her after she refused to support Trump four years ago. Last year her mother suffered a stroke, but her brother - who lived in the same California city as her mother - did not let her know when their mother died six months later.

She was told the news after three days in an email from her sister-in-law. Whoever wins the election, Guadagno is pessimistic that she can reconcile with her brother, although she says she still loves him. Sarah Guth, 39, a Spanish interpreter from Denver, Colorado, said she has cut several Trump-supporting friends out of her life. She could not reconcile herself to their support for issues such as separating immigrant children from parents at the southern border, or for Trump himself after he was caught on tape bragging about groping women.

Guth and her Trump-voting father did not speak to each other for several months after the election.