On the first Thanksgiving of the Trump era, we were in Kentucky and had just settled down at the dinner table when the front door flew open and a family member burst in.

"Don't nobody mention Donald Trump to me," he pleaded as he pulled up a chair. "I've done been run off from two Thanksgiving dinners, and this is my last chance to get something to eat."

That was the theme of Thanksgiving 2016. Trump had just been elected president a few weeks earlier, and family dinner tables were as divided as if someone had split them with an ax.

Political conversations are always fraught at holiday get-togethers. But that year, the eggshells were particularly fragile, and it seemed impossible to tiptoe around the hurt feelings and bitterness the election had wrought.

It was hard for many people to

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