Unfortunately, Signorile is not alone in his thinking.

In an article published recently by the very left-wing Daily Kos, another man claimed he went so far as to cancel his annual Christmas party to spare himself from the possibility of coming into contact with Trump supporters.

“I told my Alice that Trump voters were not welcome in my home. Living in Dallas, Texas, and given the conservative bent of our friends, that meant no party. We couldn’t invite only the few people we knew who conformed to our sense of decency. We weren’t even sure where some of our neighbors stood. So we cancelled the whole affair,” said Henry S. Rosen.

He claimed he tried to keep his chin up after Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss, hoping that the duties of the White House would have a sobering effect on Trump. But then the New York businessman tapped former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon for a role in the White House, which, when coupled with stories of minorities being harassed and discriminated against, proved too much for Rosen.

“I realized this was not a normal election, with one political philosophy prevailing over another. This was a repudiation of the value system – and Constitution — on which the United States is based. This was a green light to racism and demagoguery which apparently festers even in people of privilege. This was an overt turning of the cheek to freedom of the press, to truth, decency and respect,” Rosen wrote.

He added, “Every person who voted for Trump is complicit. Some, like Hillary’s deplorables, are incorrigible. Others, like our comfortable friends, chose their own pocketbooks, or their understandable distaste of Hillary Clinton, over doing what was right.”

Sure, Rosen wrote, there are perhaps non-racist people who voted for Trump. Maybe they’re even decent. But that doesn’t excuse them for failing to see the obvious parallels between Trump’s success and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.

“Many blame immigrants, minorities, elites and the media for their plight. This is now a world in which strongman elected officials like Putin, Duterte, La Pen and Hofer are enjoying surges of popularity. They wantonly attack life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – all in the name of economic retribution, law and order, and fighting terrorism,” he wrote. “To this menacing trend, we now add Donald Trump. This is not a joke. This is not tolerable. This is not American. The people who enabled it by voting for this ignorant and dangerous buffoon are not welcome in my home.”

There’s not a lot that one can say in response to such a declaration.

Perhaps he should first try talking to his friends and acquaintances before battening down the hatches and sealing the vault.

Look, it is possible to be friends with a person who holds opposing political beliefs. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia made it work.

Perhaps Rosen would argue that this goes beyond mere political beliefs. Fine. But has he tried talking to these possible Trump supporters?

The life politicized is a terrible and lonely thing. Don’t do that to yourself.