A Florida woman has gone viral after posting a tearful video confessing that she regrets voting for Donald Trump — a decision she believes contributed to her father’s detention by immigration authorities.
On 16 June 2025, Cynthia Hotom shared an emotional clip on social media in which she begged for the release of her terminally ill father. The man, who has lived in Florida for more than 30 years and spent most of his life working in construction to support his family, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Coddling their feelings of inadequacy lead to Trump being elected twice, so telling them to fuck off can’t be any worse.
If somebody leaves a cult and is taking steps to change their life, I believe they should be supported.
Yes consequences are a thing, but they are still a human being. The left needs all the support it can get. The more welcoming we are to people who realize their mistakes, the easier it will be to work towards a better future.
If they are not willing to change and learn after experiencing consequences, that is another matter.
The left needs to motivate the unmotivated, not waste time trying to peel off current or former right wing voters.
Exactly. People are capable of changing and the left is supposed to believe in redemption. This purity-testing dead-to-me bullshit every time someone forgets a pronoun or whatever is a cancer that’s setting our movement and message back every time we fall into the trap.
Changing yourself is hard. We all deserve acceptance and support when we pull it off, for the good of all.
Ffs, this is how you got where you are right now, you did this after the civil war, and because you did, you now have nazis. You aren’t ever going to learn this. lmfao.
This is a bad analogy. The person involved seems to be genuinely introspective and repentant. The south post civil war was unrepentant, and the north didn’t have the resolve to keep control, partly because the north was also racist as fuck.
I’ll bet she continues to vote Republican by focusing on blaming Trump instead of the party whose values he represents. She can say she fell for conservative talking points all she wants, but odds are she will latch on to some single issue crap and explain away why she just can’t vote for Dems because they aren’t perfect or something.
Enjoy your nazis.