Your thoughts on the protests

[Cecelia]

But that's the thing. I said "They very reluctantly voted for Trump." "They did not like Trump." "They were forced to choose between what they felt was the lesser evil of 2 very bad choices." 

...And the comments he made, etc, were the reason why these good people I know did not like him and hated the fact that he was the candidate. 

I guess feel free to judge them if you want, feel free to say my father and my friends are racist bigots. You don't know them. I do. I choose not to judge.

There were plenty of choices.  There was the choice not to make a choice.  There was the choice of Evan McMullin.  There was the choice of Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein.  There was the choice of asking Mitt Romney to run again.  There was the choice of rallying against Donald Trump before he got as far as he did.  Let's not pretend there were only two choices.  The choice people chose was to 'reluctantly' support a bully.  A sexist, racist, xenophobic bully.  Doing so reluctantly means you still do so.