re: Have any of you lost close friends or family relationships over politics?

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No, I’m not friends with Liberals.

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This is the answer. Why would you want anything to do with someone who supports matters that are harmful to your children’s future?

Yes. Good friend from college. Almost daily text exchanges (life, kids, memes, jokes and some politics) abruptly ended over a year ago.

My older daughter, she was always difficult to be honest. Just an unhappy human. She went off to Tulane, switched majors and graduated with an art degree. Never was good at keeping a job, became quite angry when I stopped sending her money 4 or 5 years after she graduated college. I called her one time and asked her how she was doing and where she was working. There was a pause and then she responded with. Well you know I hate to work.

Back to the point, she called me hysterically screaming and crying the first time Trump was elected. She told me the Trump was going to put all of the homosexuals and the blacks in concentration camps. I just started laughing and told her she was ridiculous.
I pointed out that a large portion of our military is Black and asked her how she thought they were all going to be convinced to go along with that idea.
The next Christmas, she refused to come to my dad‘s house because she knew he probably voted for Trump. Oddly enough the year before he gifted her a new pistol. Her sister was really jealous because she got such a nice gift.
We communicate a couple of times a year. Holidays are much more relaxed when she doesn’t come home.
We have a family group chat, every few years she demands that she be added and then the first time someone disagrees with her because she often goes on political rants. She removes herself from the chat. The odd part about that is it’s about 50/50
Democrats - Republican on the group chat. Most of us are adult enough to keep our opinions to ourselves.
Every once in a while and aunt or an uncle will get drunk and post something silly late at night and usually we just ignore them

When my stepDad was dying my stepsister and her family brought that anti-Trump crap with them. I avoided conversations about it BUT any conversation/decision that needed rational thinking I weighed their mindset.

My son and I don't talk politics. My sister hated Trump and we were cut off for a time but we are good now. But again, we don't talk politics.

When I was in my teens and 20s half of my friends identified as conservatives and half identified as liberals. Once they hit their 30s and got some experience and saw how the world and the country really were all my conservative friends were still conservative and all of my former liberal friends became conservative. Obviously hasn’t been a problem for me.

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There were at least five people on my Instagram feed that said Charlie deserved to be murdered and it’s a good thing he’s dead. One of them was a nurse that I had two dates with back in the day and I highly considered contacting her employer about it.

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really?
contacting someone's employer because you're butthurt about a guy you don't know is 100% a bitch move

Yes, and it was during Katrina response. My son was influenced by his now wife due her Vitamin P. She and her immediate family were all members of the Green Party, liberal arts academia.

Some things are more important than family and friendship, and politics is one of them.

Anyone who didn’t vote for Trump I immediately cut off all contact with in 2016. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

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Have any of you lost close friends or family relationships over politics?

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Does reactions to Covid count? Political bullshite like Russiagate, or Hunter's laptop are news bits that people get hung up on and argue over.

When people I regarded as friends told me I didn't love my teenagers because I refused to have them vaccinated, there were some thoughts that entered my head that I won't say out loud.

When family members I thought were level headed adults freaked out over Covid, I realized they may have good hearts, but they are so manipulated. So their opinions on anything political mean nothing to me.