Election 2020

Conservatives Attack Actress Alyssa Milano After She Tries to Extend an Olive Branch to Trump Supporters

Actor Alyssa Milano campaigned ardently for President-elect Joe Biden in the run-up to the presidential election and she has since reached out to Trump supporters, offering an “olive branch” of sorts. Mediaite reports her efforts received a somewhat mixed reaction from her progressive followers, the reactions from Trump supporters, as you might expect, were hostile.

Milano seemed to be taking a page from Biden, who said he’d consider nominating a Trump supporter to his cabinet (and I sincerely hope he means this in the spirit of healing, and not because he’s really thinking about it). Milano offered her message on Twitter, as a salve to Trump supporters, and as an encouragement for her own followers to do the same.

“I’d like to extend an olive branch to Trump supporters,” Milano wrote. “I am ready to move #ForwardTogether.”

“There’s so much work to do to heal the nation,” she added. “Let’s be a part of the solution and not add to the problems we face. My comments are open. Please reply with #ForwardTogether.”

Then she added a follow-up tweet.

“We’re going to need a lot of humility and compassion right now. Anger and triumphalism is less helpful.”

Conservatives weren’t on board with this and resorted to troll mode.

Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollack wanted an apology — of sorts, even though Breitbart should apologize to the world for even existing.

Fortunately, some people appreciated Milano’s sentiments and offered their support.

But there are some, like me for instance, who aren’t going to extend that olive branch. By supporting a man who’s openly racist, who brought fascism out in the open, a man who’s very likely a pedophile, who let more than 268,000 Americans die on his own watch by doing nothing about the pandemic the world is dealing with is something I can’t get behind in any way.

Sorry. That’s just never gonna happen.

And as the tweets below demonstrate, I’m not alone.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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