If we kick everyone out of MAGA who, at one point in time, thought President Trump is Satan's evil transgender brother, MAGA would be very small. The consensus building was very intense and lots of people outsourced their thinking.
If MAGA was only supposed to include the early adopter true believers, then we would not need a Great Awakening.
I never thought that about Trump. I never watched his show, though, it was not my cup of tea. But I remember many times hearing him on the radio saying "I should run for president" and I never had a negative reaction to that. Or a positive one either. I am from a time when Ross Perot ran and I guess I thought Trump would be like that - maybe good for the country but would not win. Even on election night, after voting for Trump, I thought I would wake up to a Hillary presidency and it upset me because I feared for our country in her hands. "I want Trump to win but I know it's not going to happen." I voted for him anyway, against the odds. I stayed up all damn night waiting for the outcome anyway, even though I personally thought there was a slim-to-none chance for Trump.
And my celebration of his win was HUGE. I woke my entire household up in the middle of the night to deliver the news!
I think a lot of people admired Trump until he ran for office.
I have no problem allowing those people into our movement, and welcome them. I do have a problem with electing them to be our leaders. These people who change their minds like that can’t be trusted in positions of power imo.
If we kick everyone out of MAGA who, at one point in time, thought President Trump is Satan's evil transgender brother, MAGA would be very small. The consensus building was very intense and lots of people outsourced their thinking.
If MAGA was only supposed to include the early adopter true believers, then we would not need a Great Awakening.
I never thought that about Trump. I never watched his show, though, it was not my cup of tea. But I remember many times hearing him on the radio saying "I should run for president" and I never had a negative reaction to that. Or a positive one either. I am from a time when Ross Perot ran and I guess I thought Trump would be like that - maybe good for the country but would not win. Even on election night, after voting for Trump, I thought I would wake up to a Hillary presidency and it upset me because I feared for our country in her hands. "I want Trump to win but I know it's not going to happen." I voted for him anyway, against the odds. I stayed up all damn night waiting for the outcome anyway, even though I personally thought there was a slim-to-none chance for Trump.
And my celebration of his win was HUGE. I woke my entire household up in the middle of the night to deliver the news!
I think a lot of people admired Trump until he ran for office.
I have no problem allowing those people into our movement, and welcome them. I do have a problem with electing them to be our leaders. These people who change their minds like that can’t be trusted in positions of power imo.
As an ex-leftist, this is a fair take.
But trust is hard to repair once broken.