she was cuffed to the truth

Ugh, I feel like that question is so loaded with privilege. Some people with marginal identities don't always get to pick whether they can respect and/or trust people whose political stances don't respect those identities. Obviously. But having a politicized identity makes us weird and abnormal, I guess, not part of the default perspective from which writer's block questions are asked. :-P

Or, in short: ditto.