Ex-CNN reporter says she is 'haunted' after having dinner with 'closeted' Trump supporters who seemed 'normal'

A erstwhile CNN newsman took to societal media Sunday to speech astir however she is  'haunted' by a meal with respective Donald Trump supporters who astatine archetypal glimpse seemed 'normal.'

'All were well-educated and palmy successful careers,' Michelle Kosinski recalled of the caller meal party.

'They seemed great! On the surface. For similar an hr ' the onetime NBC News analogous continued, categorizing the Trump-leaning guests arsenic 'closeted'.

'But slowly, implicit a fewer drinks, they began to fto gaffe their existent MAGA natures.'

The 50-year-old who served arsenic CNN's White House Correspondent until 2020 went connected to adhd how  she was amazed by the revelation - marveling astatine however a 'normal' a radical of radical could enactment a person she does not o.k. of.

She proceeded to supply idiosyncratic details astir the enactment guests, on with immoderate of their children

'One of the couples each attended apical ivy league colleges,' the erstwhile CNN staffer wrote successful a thread that has since been viewed 3million times.

'But present that it was assemblage clip for their ain kids, they were adamantly NOT letting them use to immoderate ivies.

'And were weird astir explaining why. Though the kids were treble legacies. Okayyy... moving on...'

Pivoting from the taxable apt linked to caller protests implicit the existent struggle successful Gaza, Kosinski turned to the adjacent radical of non-progressive principles. 

'The adjacent unit abruptly busted retired with aerial quotes erstwhile mentioning clime change,' the onetime Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for famously left-leaning CNN recalled.

'Again, these are different astute people,' she added, insinuating that the millions of Americans who enactment the existent GOP frontrunner are of below-average intelligence.

'Not scientists, clearly,' she sniped. 'But educated. And the dude took seething umbrage erstwhile my person mentioned the harm Trump had done and vowed to proceed to do.'

'The others,' she added, 'when they realized that a fewer successful their beingness came equipped with (gasp) existent facts (NO!)-- rapidly changed the subject.

'[They] nervously said they don't privation to speech politics,' the writer remembered, adding of her chap diners: 'They realized they would beryllium eviscerated connected each idiotic points, particularly connected the economy.'

'My friends and I realized we were surrounded by different cautiously closeted MAGAts,' she yet concluded - earlier describing how the expected 'ordeal' has already near an affectional toll

'It's comic however the extremist oregon conscionable incorrect beliefs can't assistance but leak out, adjacent erstwhile you slightest expect them, and from radical you slightest expect. They are retired there.'

'This meal continues to haunt me. They each seemed so... normal.'

Many were speedy to mock the anecdote, pointing retired the governmental writer's hestiance to judge different schools of thought arsenic legitimate, arsenic good arsenic her tendency to not socialize with those sporting peculiar views. 

'Damn, to beryllium haunted by conversations with those you disagree. You person my sympathy,' wrote 1 specified user, successful a station that has been similar much than 1,500 times. 

Jokingly parroting helium "This meal continues to haunt me", idiosyncratic other sniped" You desperately request to prosecute with radical extracurricular your bubble if divergent views "haunt" you. 

Someone other added: 'You unrecorded successful your bubble. 

'People are fed up with self-righteous “progressives” state of thought precedes state of speech.' 

Mark Hemingway of Real Clear Investigations, meanwhile, pointed to however owe rates person tripled aft 3 years of Joe Biden.

'It is genuinely astonishing however astatine a clip erstwhile owe rates person adjacent to tripled successful 3 years, wide user prices are up 20 percent (25 for food), and Russia's astatine warfare successful Eastern Europe and the full Middle East is simply a pulverization keg -- the effect is "MAGAts don't cognize facts!"' 

Others honed successful connected the outspoken progressive's evident tendency to enactment Trump supporters done a process made fashionable by regimes known arsenic 'reeducation.'

'If radical don't ever speech astir these things arsenic friends and neighbors, and lone unrecorded successful their ain warped accusation silos, however volition they ever larn what is existent oregon false?' a station from Koinski successful the aforesaid menace reads.  

'How volition the information ever marque them see alternatives? The allure of bullsh*t is co-opting decent minds.'

Kosinski, astir precocious the big of a left-leaning podcast, has 65.5 followers connected X, with whom she regularly shares anti-Trump content. 

In a station published successful December 2016, she is seen schmoozing with her hubby and the Obamas during her stint arsenic CNN's White House Correspondent. 

She has yet to pen a follow-up to her bid of posts.