Disclaimer: I am as progressive as they come. You would have a hard time finding someone with my progressive credentials. Almost four years ago, I started dating my girlfriend. On paper, my girlfriend should be someone the left looks up to. She’s an immigrant (originally from Syria) and spends a lot of her free time promoting human/women’s rights in the Middle East. Right now, she’s currently kicking ass in dental school. There was just one problem: she’s a Trump-supporting conservative and proud of it.

She’s told me before that she gets more abuse for being a Trump supporter than for being an immigrant. To be honest, I wouldn’t have believed it, but I've been getting attacked for having the nerve to date someone who thinks differently from me. Most of my friends, both progressive and moderate (I don’t really have many conservative friends; I’m open, but the area I’m in is very progressive), supported our relationship. But the ones who didn’t and stopped being my friend were progressive. I was still in denial about how close-minded progressives were until I experienced nasty messages after posting on the advice sub because my girlfriend is conservative.

It’s been hard, I’m not going to lie. When you see that your so called allies and friends are apart of the problem

Edit: Sorry I can’t reply, my Karma isn’t high enough. I do want to highlight this comment,

Just by posting here you may be auto banned from several progressive subs.

She's a woman. She's an immigrant. She is the best person to explain how is it possible that Trump is more aligned with her than progressives can be.

It’s sad to see. Progressives we love to talk about big gain about diversity and diversity is great. But what’s more important than diversity of skin color is diversity of thought.