Steve Lopez: They sometimes cringe at Trump, but this California couple are still sold on the president
LOS ANGELES - Two years into the Donald Trump experience, with midterm elections coming up this week, political fault lines deeper than the San Andreas and political rhetoric flaring like a California wildfire, I got into my car and drove to Temecula.
That was the deal I made last year with Dana Martin, proud Trump supporter, and I'm a man of my word. Two years running, we met at a Denny's in Redondo Beach, a two-man exercise in political civility. Martin had written in 2016 to tell me he was canceling his subscription to the Los Angeles Times because he thought we were out to destroy Trump.
"Thank God for Fox News," he said.
At Denny's, I learned that Martin, a hardware salesman, supported reasonable gun control, and gay marriage, and believed in a woman's right to choose, and was quite fond of his Latina daughter-in-law, who recently
