@hightor,
hightor wrote:I've read a number of accounts about the threats and harassment that follow when MAGA targets these alleged "turncoats". There are some very repulsive people in that movement. Even people outside the public eye often stay quiet when they decide they've had enough.
Now that yardwork has started, I'm catching up on podcasts, and I just listened to one a few days ago with an account exactly as you've described. Here's the description, from the Know Your Enemy podcast:
Quote:When people break with MAGA, most of them walk away and don't look back, whether out of shame or fear or both. So it's a rare thing to talk with someone willing to describe publicly why they joined the Trump movement, what life was like on the inside, and the reasons they left — but it's just such a conversation we have for you today, with writer and former New Right firebrand Pedro L. Gonzalez. Enjoy.
Even taking into consideration that the guy is probably going to be at least somewhat self-preserving and looking to gain favor with a new audience, I found the episode to be validating (cautiously) of a number of assumptions about Trump supporters, the purely anti- anything to the left nihilists, the
go along to get alongs, and the like. All this to say, for anyone asking 'how can people still support... ,' I highly recommend the
episode.
I also recommend their
episode covering the Iran war. It was recorded close to the beginning of the war, but it actually served as a good reset, given all the subterfuge Trump & the gang have thrown out and called an explanation.
I should give a trigger warning, these podcasters are former conservatives who now reside firmly to the political left, and they don't hide their distaste for the Democratic party. But although I don't always agree with these positions, they're at least not smarmy and condescending and stupid and without any actual point about it, like a lot of what I see a lot of online.
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