Rejecting Former MAGA Supporters Is a Mistake
I’ve just seen David’s interview with former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair. Some highly upvoted comments criticized her, saying that what she did was unforgivable. I think rejecting former MAGA supporters is a terrible strategy.
People on the right tend to embrace former leftists. They’re smart enough to understand that they need power, not purity, to achieve their goals.
For many, it’s obvious that Trump and his circle have been doing egregious things for years. But sometimes people simply can’t see the truth, no matter how self-evident it is. For example, ask a vegan and they’ll probably tell you they can’t believe they used to do something so evidently cruel, like unnecessarily eating animals. Should vegans reject newcomers just because they used to do reprehensible things? That’d only hurt the cause.
So, in the end, what people did before shouldn’t matter that much, as long as they’re willing to oppose Trump now. Maybe some of them will eventually go back to their old immoral behavior, but you still have to take the risk of accepting their support while they speak up against him. If you want any real hope of getting rid of Trump soon, you have to take all the support you can get.