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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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[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The last thing most people will do is admit they're wrong and when given the chance to change their minds the first thing they'll do is make excuses for why they don't need to.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If nothing else, a large portion of his supporters are elderly and/or in very bad health. Even if not a single one of them changes their mind, there will still be fewer and fewer as time goes on.

[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

A fair point. But I am afraid they're being replaced by young idiots who listen to crappy comedian podcasts and Facebook AI slopaganda. We just gotta hope they stay unvaccinated, eat raw and keep taking unregulated pharmaceuticals.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remember people saying the electorate changing via attrition as older people die and younger people reach voting age would be sufficient to make things better 20 years ago... Still waiting...