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For families deeply divided, a summer of hot buttons begins

This May 2022 photo shows Chloe Leyendecker, left, with siblings Lexy, center, and Hunter in suburban Dallas. (Kristia Leyendecker via AP). This photo shows Sarah Stewart Holland, left, and Beth Silvers, co-hosts of the popular podcast Pantsuit Politics and co-authors of the book “Now What? How to Move Forward When We’re Divided (About Basically Everything). The two have been speaking about hot button issues as summer heralds another season of red house-blue house fatigue. (Sarah Stewart Holland via AP) Reda Hicks appears with her husband Jake Hicks, left, daughter Katie and son Howard in Houston on Nov. 21, 2021. Reda Hicks, 41, was born and raised in Odessa, the epicenter of the West Texas oil industry. Her family is large, conservative and deeply evangelical. Her move to Austin for college was an eye opener. She has watched friction among friends and family from her two very different worlds devolve on her social media feeds. (Alicia Verdier via AP) This photo shows Sarah Stewart Holland, left, and Beth Silvers, co-hosts of the popular podcast Pantsuit Politics and co-authors of the book “Now What? How to Move Forward When We’re Divided (About Basically Everything). The two have been speaking about hot button issues as summer heralds another season of red house-blue house fatigue. (Sarah Stewart Holland via AP) Reda Hicks appears with her husband Jake Hicks, left, daughter Katie and son Howard in Houston on Nov. 21, 2021. Reda Hicks, 41, was born and raised in Odessa, the epicenter of the West Texas oil industry. Her family is large, conservative and deeply evangelical. Her move to Austin for college was an eye opener. She has watched friction among friends and family from her two very different worlds devolve on her social media feeds. (Alicia Verdier via AP) Former President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally in Greensburg, Pa., on May 6, 2022, left, an American flag waves below the U.S. Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 9, 2022, center, and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, speaks before the House Rules Committee seeking contempt of Congress charges against Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino at the Capitol in Washington, on April 4, 2022. (AP Photo) Actor Matthew McConaughey holds an image of Alithia Ramirez, 10, who was killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, during a press briefing at the White House on June 7, 2022, in Washington, left, a woman holds a sign during a Students Demand Action event in Washington on June 6, 2022, center, and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., a member of the House Second Amendment Caucus, speaks about Democratic measures to curb gun violence in Washington, June 8, 2022, after mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo) A woman holds a sign saying "stop abortion now," at a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 5, 2022, left, and another woman holds a sign during a news conference for reproductive rights in response to the leaked draft of the Supreme Court's opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 3, 2022. For families divided along red house-blue house lines, summer's slate of reunions, group trips and weddings poses another exhausting round of navigating divides. The season opens at a time of conflict fatigue. Pandemic restrictions have melted away but gun control, the fight for reproductive rights, the Jan. 6 insurrection hearings, the bite of high inflation and a range of other issues prevail. (AP Photo)
For families deeply divided, a summer of hot buttons begins