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Why Liberals #WalkAway From The Democratic Party

Tim Pool Daily News

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Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A viral campaign called #walkaway has people all over social media talking about why they left the Democratic Party. Started Brandon Straka over his grievances with the mainstream left and carried out into this month the trend has really pick up.But some are saying its fake and that people are not really walking away. So whats really going on with #WalkAway, is it real, and if so can it have an impact this November?SUPPORT JOURNALISM. Become a patron athttp://www.patreon.com/TimcastSupport the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In May, a man named Brandon Strenker uploaded a video to Facebook called The Walkaway Campaign.

0:05.5

In the video, he details his grievances with the mainstream left, saying they've become

0:09.9

intolerant, they've turned on their own, and in some instances are actually acting fascistic.

0:16.3

Since the launching of this video, he's been getting a ton of attention. Almost immediately,

0:20.7

he got hundreds of thousands of views, and as of today, between Facebook and YouTube,

0:25.9

the campaign has nearly two million views. The goal of the campaign is to get other people to

0:31.7

use the hashtag walkaway and detail why they did or will walk away from the mainstream left.

0:38.4

Because of this, we've seen sort of a kickback. There are now news organizations claiming that

0:43.6

some of the people pushing this are bots. There are robots that are simply propping up this trend,

0:48.2

and it's not real. Others are saying it's true. Many people are actually pulling away from

0:54.1

the mainstream left. So what is actually going on is hashtag walkaway real, and if it is,

1:00.8

is it actually going to get people to leave the Democratic Party?

1:07.1

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1:46.3

let's just take a quick look at what hashtag walkaway is. We have this Facebook page for the

1:51.6

walkaway campaign, this man here, Brandon Streka, and you can see this about 26,000 people who

1:56.6

like this, 28,000 people are following it. The original video on Facebook, as of today,

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