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‘Cold and tense’: 10 Americans on how politics changes relationships

By Maggie Astor
New York Times·
12 mins to read

A woman in Colorado used to pride herself on engaging political opponents without judgment. But since relatives embraced Covid conspiracy theories while she was doing emergency pandemic response work, she has become viscerally wary of conservatives.

A lifelong Republican in Florida, disillusioned by former President Donald Trump, has listened to racist comments from friends and wondered if he ever truly knew them.

Nearly one in five voters said in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll that political divisions had

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