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    Robin Abcarian: A Texas teen put his country first — and the 'Big Lie' Republicans to shame

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2022 4 minutes
    Pro-Trump rioters push back against police in the nation's capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.

    I can barely keep count of the people I know who have had a falling out with family members or friends over Donald Trump, his corrosive racism, COVID denialism or his undying, narcissistic insistence that he won the 2020 presidential election.

    Some have simply stopped talking to each other, some have resolved to avoid politics when they find themselves together.

    And then there are families like the Reffitts of Texas, who have become unwitting symbols of the country's extreme polarization in the aftermath of the Trump presidency.

    A new podcast about the lead-up to Jan. 6 and its aftermath," by investigative reporters Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein, examines in depth the Reffitt family dynamics: an arrogant father who gives himself fully to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, a teenage son who is clear-eyed about the election and the dangers posed by his father's descent into lawlessness, and a wife and mother torn between her husband and son — and devastated by both.

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