Overview
- The newly published piece frames the current moment as a conservative win and urges restraint rather than triumphal arguments.
- It cites surveys saying many Americans avoid or find holiday political talk stressful, though the sourcing is unspecified.
- Suggested tactics include arriving with desserts, deploying a “strategic nod,” skipping phone show-and-tell, and bringing a nonpartisan Uno game.
- The author proposes exit valves such as walking the dog, pitching in with dishes, and “coping ahead” using a bingo-style list of triggers with small sips as rewards.
- The op-ed describes Thanksgiving as a ritualized setting and invokes an unreferenced claim about shared meals boosting oxytocin, while a separate column argues for carefully structured political conversations.