After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020

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If you had told me three years ago that I would ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed and assured you that was never going to happen. Heck, if you had told me I would do it three months ago, I probably would have done the same thing. So, how did I find myself among 11,000-plus Trump supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting.

You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community, but you’d be wrong. Many knitters are active in social justice communities and love to discuss the revolutionary role knitters have played in our culture. I started noticing this about a year ago, particularly on Instagram. I knit as a way to relax and escape the drama of real life, not to further engage with it. But it was impossible to ignore after roving gangs of online social justice warriors started going after anyone in the knitting community who was not lockstep in their ideology. Knitting stars on Instagram were "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px);">bullied and mobbed by hundreds of people for "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px);">seemingly innocuous offenses. One man got mobbed so badly that he had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to the hospital on suicide watch. Many things were not right about the hatred, and witnessing the vitriol coming from those I had aligned myself with politically was a massive wake-up call.
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This is a really well written article.

I think it's great that this very progressive democrat stepped out of her comfort zone and echo chamber and genuinely listened to what the other side was saying.

A great read for everybody on both sides.

 

Wow... nobody wanted to read or respond to this article.

Interesting

 

This election is going to be better than the last election, which was epic.