But I stuck with MAGA. The fear of losing my community terrified me. For the better part of a year, I spent myriad sleepless nights wrestling with my conscience.
The final straw came for me on May 24, 2022, when a gunman massacred 19 kids and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. MAGA’s response was that we needed more guns. My research had shown me that was egregiously mistaken. Overwhelmed by guilt for having contributed to this madness, I quit MAGA.
Three months later, I published a mea culpa, in which I renounced my support for Trump and apologized for my hurtful deeds and rhetoric. I never imagined that anyone would care. But the opposite was true: I was deluged with requests for help from people hoping to save their relationships with their friends and loved ones in MAGA.
Ex-MAGA are welcome to join hands and support each other and pat each other on the back for their newfound clearheaded Democratic fervor, but keep it the hell away from me.
Platforming a virulent racist for the last 10 years and cheering his attempts to destroy our country isn’t in the “Oops, sorry!” class of mistakes.
Good on you for opening your eyes. Now fuck off.
People can change their views but the straw that broke the Camel’s back thing makes me think less that they have really grown or changed as a person and are alligned with the same world views, hopes, dreams, and goals, as me and more that they will jump off the bandwagon and go back to their shitty views as soon as someone more “moderate” comes along on their side.
If nine people go and sit with a racist at a table, that table has ten racists at it.
Sorry, but if you voluntarily leap across what should be an elementary moral boundary for your talking head, I have no time for you now or ever.
there is nobody with a brain that you agree with 100%. Politics is about finding people who you agree with enough that you are willing to accept the differences.
That you don’t agree with someone does not make their views bad, they are just different.
… Depends on the views
I’m sorry, but there is no plausible deniability anymore. What we knew going into the last election cycle is that Trump is:
Supporting this monster isn’t a brief lapse in judgment, it is predicated on ignoring history or embracing his particular brand of sexual assault, racism, and stupidity.
Brown people are literally dying in concentration camps right now.
Those are all obvious things to people outside the cult, but you massively misunderstand how information is distributed and controlled in these conservative communities. When everyone around you, including people you like/respect, are just regurgitating Fox News talking points and shutting down any critical thinking, a lot of people just kinda shrink back and ignore those edges.
This doesn’t excuse their ignorance, but ignorance (either willful or not) and fear of losing their community is a much larger explanation for their behavior than them all fully endorsing everything Trump is and does.
We can disagree about tax policy and whether or not seatbelt laws are a good idea, and be willing to accept the differences.
We cannot disagree about concentration camps and pedophile islands, and be willing to accept the differences.
It’s not about 100%, it’s really just one issue, white supremacy. Either you think people with not enough melanin are better than everyone else or you don’t. That much is just black and white. I ain’t got time for you if you’re racist, period.
In 2024, 15% of black voters, 48% of hispanic voters, and 40% of asian voters voted for Trump. So in order for your argument to stand that all Trump voters are white supremasists, you’ll have to make the rather unlikely argument that all these people of darker skinned races are also white supremacists.
And if they aren’t, then there must be some other reason to vote for Trump. In which case, your argument kind of falls flat.
That’s fine, if they just dont pay attention to politics and just voted for trump casually without knowing his white supremacy then surely those voters have abandoned maga already. That said, a lot of these former trump voters changed their mind before his second election.
And yes blacks and asians can also be white supremacists, just like women can be misogynists.