I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics
How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World

I read an article a few weeks ago by Kathryn Jean Lopez after her reading of this book. The title made me chuckle, so I headed off to the library to pick up a copy. The night I started it I had dinner with a friend and I was telling her about the author’s situation. She’s a strong left-leaning liber......more

I don't have an intimate relationship with a Trump supporter and neither does the author. She is liberal and her husband is conservative and they both disaprove of Trump. She writes as though the conservative/liberal divide is equivalent to the Trump/anti-Trump divide. Not the same thing at all. Tru......more

I appreciated the main theme of this book, which was that political views are not at all an indication of moral character. The author backs up this claim well with numerous examples, the most compelling of which was the woman who's conservative uncle was the only family member to come to her aid whe......more

Quite torn by this book - on one hand, the advice to look inward at yourself and your own behaviour when it comes to political discussions, and to bear in mind the things you love about the person you butt heads with politically are useful. But the rest of the advice is basically “don’t persist in t......more

I thought I would like this book, but I didn't really. I get in heated conversations with my family, and although Safer's advice of treat your conversation partner like a human seems good on the face of it, I'm not sure it necessarily holds water in a time when the stakes are so high. I mean, on som......more