1) I'd like to offer a tip of the hat to Mark Evanier's NEWS FROM ME website for turning me onto this illuminating video recently created by The Lincoln Project...
PATHETIC (3-26-26):
2) And here's an excerpt from Leigh Kimmins' 4-10-26 DAILY BEAST article entitled "MAGA Exiles Flock to Support Group Citing Trump ‘Lies’":
MAGA supporters are ditching the movement in record numbers because of President Donald Trump’s most “toxic” trait: lying.
Rich Logis, founder of the nonprofit Leaving MAGA, said his organization is experiencing “record-high” fundraising and seeing “more who are having doubts than ever before.”
He rattled off the reasons defectors give, saying: “The Epstein files. Tariffs. Deaths at the hands of federal immigration enforcement agents. Skyrocketing gas prices. The slashing of federal jobs. A ‘war of choice’ in Iran.”
Since becoming a tax-exempt nonprofit in August 2024, Leaving MAGA has raised roughly $34,000 in its first year, approximately $110,000 the following year, and has already pulled in $100,000 in 2026 [...].
The grievances Logis hears are both ideological and practical. Trump campaigned on lowering costs, but gas prices now average more than $4 a gallon. A recent poll found that as many as seven in 10 Americans blame Trump’s tariff policies for high prices. His pledge to avoid “endless wars” has collided with military conflict in Iran.
“There’s still a lot of fealty to Trump within the MAGA community,” Logis said, “but I think most people in MAGA have a red line… when there’s one lie too many, when there’s one betrayal too many.”
He described his own time inside the movement as a kind of addiction.
“It was exhilarating and enthralling, until it wasn’t,” he said. “When I left, I came to realize that I had essentially been addicted to rage.”
To read the entire article, click HERE.
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