Mick Hartley

Impossible to overestimate how many people have been driven to Trump or at least away from the Dems by the abuses of the academic/activist left.

Just this week, I learned of two lifelong Dems—social science prof and humanities prof—who've gone full MAGA as a result of what they…

— Jake 🇺🇸 (@omni_american) January 19, 2025

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Just this week, I learned of two lifelong Dems—social science prof and humanities prof—who've gone full MAGA as a result of what they witnessed or endured.

I know of many others, myself included, who, while unable to countenance Trump, have gone from loyal Dems to reviling the party. Indeed, a former student, a black man FWIW, reports that he dutifully voted Harris but was surprised to find himself secretly relieved when she lost.

The wound that the overweening American left has inflicted upon itself, and the empowerment that it has gifted a party which it officially regards as an existential fascist threat, surely amounts to one of history's most egregious own-goals.

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I’m one of these people. I’m mixed race, letters behind my name, 2x Obama voter who thought Republicans were Draculas. This election cycle I donated to Donald Trump and knocked on doors in my small town. The most intriguing thing about my swap over is I’ve been asked dozens of times by conservatives why I came around to supporting Donald Trump but liberals have either stopped talking to me, or just assumed I voted Kamala and told me she lost because everyone is a racist. I think the lack of curiosity for how other people live and think will cause long term issues for leftists and liberals.