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We should welcome MAGA remorse: I should know — it saved me - Elsacat - May 12 2025
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/11/we-should-welcome-maga-remorse-i-should-know--it-saved-me/
This article is by a former MAGA diehard who now has an organization for community and safe space for those who have left MAGA, or have doubts and remorse about staying in but are afraid to leave.
A lot of what he says in this article can also apply to those caught up in movements and cult-think other than MAGA. Trans being the first example that came to mind, but by far not the only one.
RE: We should welcome MAGA remorse: I should know — it saved me - OffMyTit - May 13 2025
If people could just admit when they were wrong and apologize we wouldn’t need all these treatises on soft landings for assholes who don’t want to admit they were assholes. Why is it always on the people who were right to hold their tongues and make pleasing noises at the ones who were wrong?
RE: We should welcome MAGA remorse: I should know — it saved me - taterofdefiance - May 13 2025
I have such mixed feelings about that sort of commentary. I understand the appeal of peaceful reconciliation but it has to be earned and people's boundaries have to be respected.
It's interesting that he talked about how to engage in a conversation with a Maga person but not how to disengage if the conversation becomes unsafe. Does he have any training to.understand the mental and potentially physical abuse people might be exposed to if they connect with someone who they went non-contact with?
RE: We should welcome MAGA remorse: I should know — it saved me - Elsacat - May 13 2025
Those are great questions and I hope he'll follow up on that.