CNN politics | They call themselves ‘Wives of the Deplorables’ because their husbands support Trump

Carole Catherine founded the “Wives of the Deplorables” Facebook group after finding out her husband voted for Donald Trump.

(CNN) – Carole Catherine did not know her husband, Tim, supported Donald Trump until the day after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. She called him the next morning crying.

“And he was like, ‘Yeah, of course she lost. She is an awful human being,’ ” she said.

“It was like a light went off for me. And I thought, ‘Oh boy, we’re going to have trouble.’ “

For the next three years, Catherine felt like she was living an alternate reality. Her husband was her high school sweetheart. A rekindled love after a first marriage, children and divorce. They barely fought for the first 11 years of their marriage. And now they were working through major ideological differences.  —read more—