Have you heard of the #walkaway movement?
This campaign was started recently by Brandon Straka, a gay New York hairstylist, who said in a viral YouTube video, “For years now, I have watched as the left has devolved into intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded, and at times, blatantly fascistic behavior and rhetoric.”
Straka is encouraging others to tell their stories of how they have lost faith in the Democratic Party and why they are ready to “walk away” from its policies that are seen to encourage division and anger. (Think Rep. Maxine Waters, and her call for Democrats to harass representatives of the Trump administration in public.)
At www.walkawaycampaign.com, Straka writes of his frustration with identity politics, and encourages unity rather than division: “This is a movement of patriots from all walks of life — men, women, black, brown, white, straight, LGBTQ, religious, and non-believers — who share something very important in common. We are all Americans — and we will not surrender our country.”
The Daily Interlake
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