The Lost Americans

Sandra Wade
5 min readMar 7, 2023
We all know people like this. Proud of being “deplorable”

“Donald Trump gave people permission to be the worst version of themselves.” — Stuart Stevens, former GOP strategist and author of “It Was All a Lie”

To my readers who have lost Trump-supporting, Q-Anon-believing friends and family — do you miss them? I have to confess I do not. And here’s why:

My family members who fell into the Trump cult were never very good people to begin with. And I don’t just mean, flawed people. They’ve actually committed very bad acts.

For example, one of them lied to another family member and said she had cancer just to extort money out of him. Another one knew her daughter was being molested by her alcoholic father (he had offered to buy her a car if she’d sleep with him again), but because she couldn’t handle the daughter in her teenage years, shipped her out of state to go live with — you guessed it — her father. She also stayed with an alcoholic husband for years and years, despite the guy’s inability to help provide for the family. They ended up homeless for a while.

She had a really good government job. I remember all throughout my youth, she’d complain, though, about the “N-words” who worked there. How they were “lazy”, because they knew that they’d never be fired because of “affirmative action.” As this family member got sucked deeper and deeper into right-wing propaganda, I’d get all kinds of crazy…

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Sandra Wade
Sandra Wade

Written by Sandra Wade

Actor, filmmaker, writer and sexy cat lady. NOW ON SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@sexyliberals TIKTOK: @sexycatladiesdotcom

Responses (9)

What are your thoughts?

What distresses me about this is that I believe if we want to save our democracy, we have to reach those people somehow. Get them to see the truth — that none of these hatemongers they ...

If that's true, I fear we are doomed. They cannot hear us. It's as useless to tell them that they're being used as to tell a heroin addict that he's killing himself. They've completely tuned out anyone who says what they don't want to hear, which is…...

As you know I’ve lost some very close friends over this crazy. It’s sad I have absolutely no idea how to reach them and what’s really sad is that I stopped caring.

When I told my husband that Marjorie Taylor Greene had claimed, Democrats were killing Republicans, he responded “well it’s a good idea.” Facetiously of course. Honestly, I think all of this began with reality TV, and the need to push further and…...