"I'm an Ex-MAGA!"

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

They voted for Trump in 2016. Then they extricated themselves from the madness. Three ex-MAGAs give their perspectives.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we got to stand by three, two, one.
0:05.0	The Thinking Atheist, it's not a person.
0:08.0	It's a symbol. An idea.
0:10.0	The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.
0:14.0	Rejecting faith.
0:15.0	Pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred.
0:19.0	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth, not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.
0:25.0	And working together for a more rational world.
0:29.0	Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
0:31.0	Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
0:35.0	Assume nothing. Question everything and start thinking. This is the Thinking Atheist podcast,
0:45.0	hosted by Seth Andrews. On the show today I'm going to be speaking with three people who escaped MAGA. They voted for Trump, they supported MAGA, they identified with the Make America Great Again Movement.
1:09.0	And now they're out and they're kind of blowing the whistle and they're talking about why they were
1:14.2	wrong what they were thinking and how we might be able to approach some of these
1:18.8	people if we want to go there and so so I'm interested, you know, Stephen Hassan is a cult
1:26.6	expert, he's an ex-moony, he wrote a whole book called The Cult of Trump, and I think
1:31.3	it's straight up a cult.
1:33.0	It's the identity of the group and the leader.
1:36.0	It's an authoritarian model.
1:38.0	I will take care of you and I will solve all your problems
1:41.0	and distrust everybody else.
1:42.0	So it's an information silo and you live in an
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