Your girls are scared of the president elect. I am completely terrified of what he's going to do, but glad you're trying to hold onto your kids!!

It's a hard position for OP to be in, but he's doing the right thing. You can't force a relationship on an adult (and you shouldn't force them on a children).

NTA. All truly political issues aside - we can disagree on a lot of things, civilizedly so, and still be friends, loving relatives and such ... well, some of us can... -, the cult following Donald Trump has opted out of reason. Those most moralizing, virginity-praising people around - evangelicals - support a man who is a convicted sexual predator, who literally fücks around whereever a hole on roughly a crotch's level opens up, basically has proudly and openly committed any and every sin mentioned in the bible, in their vast library of stupid pamphlets and so on - but, as he promised them a few crumbs, he's a most mysterious god's way or something. Yeah, sure - would THEIR son behave so, they'd cut him off. Would THEIR daughter be engaged to a similar man, they'd cut her off. Heartless and without second thoughs - given, god's on their side, so why think again? Why think at all, even? All answers have resided in a little book for about 1900 years or so, and many parts are much older. New answers, logic, even accepting scientific facts that don't have many political implications to them, even more so those that have, but are true nonetheless? They won't, the inability to do that is praised and reinforced among people in those cults. Cutting off these people is just the only option to deal with them currently. Evangelicals need to hit rock bottom, be left alone with their delusion, to finally be able to see. Don't brake their fall, push them! Reason and truth, in their view, have a different meaning. Truth is what feels true to them, and serves their purpose of making the US a christian theocracy, with slightly milder racism - they won't do the hanging of negroes for none, supposed, fabricated or minor offense, but will, without any letter of the law stating it, issue more severe sentences, the darker your skin. They won't openly admit being racist, but act with that casual racism, that often credits a "supreme feel for rhythm" to darker humans (... how generous of them to admit ...), but otherwise, every non-formal racist bigotry is to be expected. And, being credited a superiority in some singled-out niche doesn't really cover or compensate the other side of it. Truth is, in their view, not consisting of proven facts and logically sound principles, but arbitrarily is assumed to whatever they feel is right, was nice and ... serves the purpose. It's a rather practice-oriented definition thereof, and that's about as frightening as it gets - a rational human who, by being given wrong information, has become a racist is, at least in principle, able to return to reason, to correct and to adapt their views, habits, decisions. These people are no longer open to any of this. Lesbians? Hated with a passion they never ever applied to any love they feel for anything. The only thing they love is a made-up Jesus who spreads love with an AR15. I think I should congratulate your daughter on the Dad they have. Uncles, aunts, grandparents - well, you don't get to pick these. They suck, you can't do much about that, but at least, you can decide that they're to do that elsewhere. NTA, a few thousand times so!

What a class act OP's mother is wanting her granddaughters to attend family events through financial coercion and not by choice, no wonder she told her to shove it.

You have two very intelligent daughters.

Voters of He Who Must Not Be Named better start getting used to spending holidays and birthdays alone.

This is why people voted for Trump. "Because it won't have a negative impact on somebody I know." Then get reminded of gay granddaughter and yell that that is their granddaughter. She might be gay but she is not "one of the gays" that Trump is talking about. And they really can't see the issue here.

I am definitely in yours and your daughters' corner on this one. Way too many Trump supporters sure like to pretend they are good people, but I've found that many of them are terrible people and even worse parents.

If you vote for/support garbage you are garbage.

OP did the right thing by supporting his kids. Funny how proudly hateful, abusive family members always expect to be showered with love.

The mouthy morons seem to think that their words/actions have no consequences and nothing can be further from the truth. "Those people" have spent *years* mouthing off about the Biden election and everything that followed while pointing fingers and screaming about a stolen election. They have been bit¢hing and crying and talking $hit for years and the people who were forced to endure them are now just over it. The younger folks chose to absent themselves from the situation because, hey, it's their choice (more power to them!) and the old grumps STILL feel like they can control the behavior of other people cause, apparently, they have more to say. Those young folks need to tell them to FO and establish their own traditions that don't involve a bunch of hateful bigots who feel like their are entitled to order people around. Go screw yourselves you nasty old crones, and anyone else who espouses that agenda. I know I'm gonna get jumped on by the soft-headed sycophants of the orange, but 🤷

It is for these things that the vote is secret... Everyone believes that they have the right to tell you who you should vote for, and if you don't do what they want you become an enemy, that's why I give an apolitical image... I never say who I'm going to support or who I'm going to vote for. , that only concerns me and no one else...

Good for him. The next four years are going to be very hard on his daughters, and the last thing they need is to hear it from their own family.

A simple set of rules that all members of my family are taught from a very young age for any family function: 1) NO POLITICS! At all! end of discussion! 2) Respect religions (most are Catholic, many are atheist, a few Hindo & others). If it's a religious event, you respect traditions/services. You don't have to take part, but you don't spout your mouth off or take the p**s. 3) Sports can be discussed, but you have to respect other teams (I think you have to compliment them or something. IDK I don't like sports). 4) Any so called 'controversial' opinions WILL be met with discussion, because we are such a varied lot, so only bring it up if you won't get upset when asked about or challenged. 5) Meat will be there! Over half of us are fecking farmers, if you are, or are bringing, a vegan or veggie, then there will be options, but beef is in our blood. Follow the rules and the family stays good. Break the rules and you'll be turfed out or likely end up unconscious.

The question at the end of this article is phrased wrong. Support of DJT goes well beyond "political differences" and why stories like this one about families being torn apart are becoming all too common. It's not about politics anymore; it's about how DJT has exposed the previously hidden ugly truth about people we thought we knew.

You people are nuts.

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"Educated women (people) with opinions of their own and the strength to stand up for what they think is right is incredibly infuriating and scary...." --- that goes both ways in this scenario. The daughters do not respect the different opinions of the elders, and the elders decisions and opinions have nothing to do with daughters life choices. Newsflash - NO ONE agrees 100% with any candidate's positions on issues. You might agree with 80%, or 50%, or you might think they're an idiot but the other side is worse. Whatever voting decision is made is not made "so Pookie won't be offended". It is much bigger than Pookie or Pookie's feelings.

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More entitled college idiots that are still too young to see how the world works. If they are like this now it'll just get worse for them when they get older

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Blood is thicker than water, meaning family is always more important. That's what my mom always said when I was younger. If I rejected every member of my family that disagreed with my political views, I'd lose half my family. I'm not willing to give that up!