Founder of #WalkAway, Brandon Straka
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
He is a gay man who had always voted democrat. So how did he become a Trump supporter? And why was he arrested for being present at the capital — outdoors — on January 6th? Brandon Straka, who founded the #WalkAway movement, tells a fascinating story of going from heartbreak over Hillary to throwing his remote control at Rachel Maddow. This is a must-listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tafoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious |
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| 0:12.1 | legacy pm investments.com. Well, coming up today in Sainastan, as we like to call our little bubble here, |
| 0:19.8 | where we try to keep things sane. |
| 0:21.7 | One of the things that has been driving me crazy for years now is this thing we refer to as |
| 0:28.3 | identity politics, where people expect all women to vote the same, all men to vote the same, |
| 0:35.9 | all blacks to vote the same, all Hispanics to vote the same. |
| 0:40.5 | The LGBTQRSTABC group, I'm not making fun. It's just that there are so many letters, I cannot keep |
| 0:46.9 | track anymore. And there's also a movement of foot to separate some of the letters, which is another |
| 0:51.6 | story for another day, although we will get to it today. But people expect everyone to vote in monolithic groups, to think in monolithic terms, |
| 1:01.2 | and to align with people who look like them, act like them, are like them in all these different |
| 1:07.4 | ways. I just don't think that's real. I hope it's not. I know I think for myself, |
| 1:14.0 | I know I don't think the same as a lot of women, and I couldn't stand it when people like Hillary |
| 1:20.0 | Clinton said, if you don't vote for women, you're a sexist, you're a misogynist. What? |
| 1:26.6 | What? This kind of stuff really bothers me. |
| 1:30.1 | So today's guest is going to explain why he left the liberal side. |
| 1:35.7 | And you're going to be really interested to hear about his background and how differently he thinks from the way you might guess or assume that he would think, given his lifestyle, given his background, given his whole person. |
| 1:50.5 | But this is the point. |
| 1:52.4 | There are movements like Blexit and like walk away. |
| 1:55.8 | And we're going to learn more about this growing trend toward screw you, I think, for myself. |
| 2:05.0 | I love this trend. |
| 2:06.8 | We're going to talk about it next. |
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