Reactionary leftists want conservatives dead.

FWIW, the Foot of All Knowledge tells us:

In December 1972, a month after U.S. President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide victory, Kael gave a lecture at the Modern Language Association, during which she said, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.” An article on the lecture in The New York Times included this quote.[64][65]

The quote quickly turned into an urban legend that Kael had instead stated something like “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”[66] This misquote, which added an element of surprise on Kael’s part, was over the next 40 years regularly cited by conservatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael#Nixon_quote

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I piped up to say that California certainly is. The most progressive of the D’s, whose daughter lives and works in SoCal, exclaimed, “California? Surely not! They just let people live their lives, there.” And (once I controlled my desire to snort with laughter, since my family and my husband’s are both longtime CA residents) I said, “What would happen to your daughter at work if, for instance, she copped to making a donation to Trump’s campaign?” She paused for a split second, then said, “She’d probably get fired.” And then added, “Of course, she’d NEVER donate to THAT idiot.”

So, since her daughter gets to live the life that the daughter wants to live, your fellow bookclub member believes that she has proved her point.