Sociologist rips leftist calls to shun Trump-supporting family members during the holidays: Sounds like a cult

A sociologist criticized calls on the left for Americans to cut off family members and other loved ones who voted for President-elect Donald Trump, saying such measures were extreme and unhealthy for society.“I don’t think that’s a great piece of advice.I mean, it sounds like a cult,” Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, told Fox News Digital.“Cults often encourage people to cut off their family and friends just to kind of keep people within the cult.

So I don’t take that advice as worth following,” he added.Wilcox was responding to advice given to Harris voters on MSNBC, just days after the election, where one guest suggested that it would be better for these voters’ mental health to distance themselves from their Trump-supporting loved ones over the holidays.“There is a push, I think just a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time, and I think the answer is absolutely not,” Yale University chief psychiatry resident, Dr.Amanda Calhoun, told MSNBC host Joy Reid last week.“So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why, you know, to say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted, because it went against my very livelihood and I’m not going to be around you this holiday,’” she said.“I think it may be essential for your mental health,” Calhoun added.This advice also drew support from “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin on Tuesday.“I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump, is just a different type of candidate, from the things he said and the things he’s done and the things he will do, it’s more of a moral issue for me and I think it’s more of a moral issue for o...