POLITICS: Jimmy Kimmel’s wife is sacrificing family ties for politics

Jimmy Kimmel’s wife has a very healthy way of dealing with family members who don’t share her political persuasion.

When our president does something she doesn’t like, Molly McNearney gets angry at her “aunts, uncles and cousins” who helped put him in office — and hectors them with anti-Trump emails.

Shockingly, this has led to some “lost relationships.”

But deep down, McNearney, who is also her husband’s executive producer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” even knows she’s the one who has lost the plot.

“I wish I could deprogram myself in some way,” she said recently on the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast.

So why doesn’t she go ahead and do it? Reboot the machine and upload a new operating system. Cut back on politics instead of cutting off her right-leaning loved ones.

After all, McNearney’s displeasure with her relatives, she insists, is not just politics — it’s about “values.”

Yet when she explains the rifts, she reveals that she values politics — and fealty to her husband — over blood and free thinking. Hmmmm.

“It hurts me so much … my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family,” she said.

“And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it.”

McNearney has somehow deluded herself into believing that her husband, whose literal job is to be a clown on late-night television and make America laugh at the end of a hard day, is now the unelected leader of the Trump resistance.

Every night, he’s out there giving battle — reading a monologue off a teleprompter and calling Republicans silly names. And her ingrate family members have the damn nerve to not consider Kimmel’s bravery when they go into a voting booth.

They should just say, “Thank you for your service, General Kimmel. Here is my vote for your preferred candidate.”

McNearney is a narcissist who believes — with deep conviction — that people in her life exist to serve her and her husband by submitting fully to their political beliefs.

She wonders why they can’t see the world the way she does: from the balcony of her sprawling Hollywood Hills compound. Won’t McNearney’s relatives think of these pampered multimillionaires on Election Day?!

On the podcast, the Missouri native describes growing up in a conservative Republican household. She even bought her dad a Rush Limbaugh tie in high school. She was “told” to vote Republican.

And she did, until she left the heartland and met different types of people with different points of view. In Los Angeles terms, she became enlightened and more compassionate.

Sadly, the knuckle-draggers in her family still haven’t caught up to her goodness. With the exception of her immediate family, they’re all still voting Republican.

But bless McNearney, she has sympathy for the poor dum-dums being “deliberately misinformed every day.”

In fact, she’s even attempted to educate them via emails, saying, “I’m begging you. Here’s 10 reasons not to vote for this guy.”

That campaign yielded “truly insane response from a few,” though 90% didn’t bother answering. But McNearney can’t take a hint.

I can just picture her aunt and uncle in Missouri every time another anti-Trump missive arrives in their inboxes.

“Hey, Barb,” her uncle yells. “We got another anti-Trump letter from Mollywood. I think she means business this time.”

After they’re done laughing, they let out a sigh and Barb tells her husband, “Hey, come sit down. It’s time for Gutfeld.”

We should not care how our nearest and dearest vote. They have their reasons, we have ours. There can be disagreements, and there should be spirited discussions.

What there shouldn’t be is schisms, at least not among mature, secure adults.

But Queen Molly is too self-absorbed to understand that voting is a personal choice — not a personal betrayal.