Why Would I Be Blocked by “Felicia C. Sullivan” on Medium?

Discussing the history of propaganda with a charming, cultured friend on the birdsite this a.m., I received a phone notice about a Medium story with this title: “I Lost My Best Friend of Two Decades to Trump” by Felicia C. Sullivan.

I was going to read it, because way back in 2015 corresponding with one of my best writing friends ever, I made the awful error of commenting, “I don’t think Trump is all that stupid — I watched several episodes of the first season of The Apprentice and he actually gave some pretty good — bzzt!”

— -auuughahhhhh augguuaahhhh Trump sucks auuughgaaaqhhh how could you say that auuuggghhahhhh — —

So we didn’t talk for four years.

Every time after that when I saw this friend on social media, he was saying something bad about Trump.

I still have a break in my friendship with my best writing friend ever. I will always love him and always want to work with him and be friends with him. I am fine with his Trump hatred but seriously — saying even one vaguely decent thing about Trump caused a four-year break in a real friendship with a real, and good person I care a lot about.

So, I thought, “oh, I’ll read this article … it sounds like maybe something similar happened to …”