Post-election update on my far Left Mom

I maintain this is a weird public display of fucked up individual and family dynamics and OP could probably use some professional intervention. Mostly on an individual level.

Elderly lonely mom is the victim in this exchange, as presented, being gaslit by her son into thinking her thoughts about political ramifications and her mortality are invalid and that she needs to relax. In the immediate aftermath, no less, when emotions are running high.

And then that son posts the exchange, makes it political, and presents her completely normal behavior as something to be laughed about. After all, she's a lonely widow and watches MSNBC, he says. Okay.

It's weird stuff. The best part was when Mom said fuck off.