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Opinion: It's not just hopium: People really are leaving MAGA (www.salon.com)

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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.

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[-] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

They might be claiming to have been tricked, but by and large the ignorant fools and hateful are still just that. That's the true problem. They will find some other fuck head that will do what they want and he will be a lot slicker about it. I don't believe these bastards learn to single thing from this whole dumbass episode of American history

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