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Have You Lost Friends Over 2024? You're Not Alone, Especially On The Left

The loss of friends is driven by one demographic, and you can guess which one

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Ben Domenech
May 13, 2025
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You may already have experienced it yourself. Whether you reacted with surprise or just wrote it off with dawning disappointment or a wry acknowledgement of inevitability depends on how well you know people. But new polling data shows what you may already suspect: your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election of Donald Trump is absolutely re…

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