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The holiday table has become a miniature stage for the country's ongoing psychodrama. Cranberry sauce mixes with conspiracy theories, and relatives arrive carrying both a side dish and a storyline pulled straight from the MAGA content mill.

Many of you are not just prepping a meal. You are bracing for impact. You are about to sit across from relatives who do not merely disagree with you but who have stepped off the shared map of reality altogether. You are speaking English and they are speaking the dialect you get after forty hours a week inside a grievance factory calibrated to keep them furious and certain. Even the most basic exchange can feel less like a conversation and more like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands.

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That is why I created three letters you can use at any point, whether it is before the holiday, in the middle of the gathering, or at the exact moment you feel the table start to tilt. Each one carries a distinct tone and strategy, giving you messaging you can offer to your relatives or keep as an internal anchor: