In interviews with MS NOW’s David Noriega over why they have abandoned Donald Trump, members of the “Leaving MAGA” organization explained why they got involved in the movement before fleeing what one called a “cult.”
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Admitting that they found acceptance within the Trump-can-do-no-wrong movement, Ron Kelley stated he left when he removed himself from the Fox News bubble.
“I did believe that the election was stolen,” he told Noriega. “I believe that the riots were actually —those were patriots until I actually switched off Fox News and started getting my news from other places for my information. That’s when it finally hit.”
Tori Hurst confessed she fell in with the MAGA crowd because, “I grew up really poor, so a lot of my friends’ parents would be responsible for helping me get to prom or making sure I had new shoes for school, and they were all MAGA. And it was very much this constant conversation of, if you want to have nice things, be a Republican.”
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What happened at the Jan. 6 insurrection eventually became a wake-up call for her.
“I met my now-husband in 2021, and they made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn’t even know what happened on January 6th prior to the PBS documentary,” she recalled. “And I looked at him and I said, ‘Scott, did that really happen?’ And he was like, ‘Where have you been?’”
Rich Logis, who founded “Leaving MAGA,” pointed out, “What MAGA does provide is a place where people feel seen and heard and validated. We used to say we’re not in the cult. The outside world is the cult, and we’re not the crazies. The outside world are the crazies.”
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