When I first saw Brandon Straka’s #WalkAway video back in 2018, I was hooked and knew I had to write about it.
His story is rather like my own in that I long ago in my youth considered myself sort of liberal in that old “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” rubric that was, on reflection, truly nonsensical.
I didn’t care if gay people wanted to be open about their gayness, I didn’t care if musical artists talked about “taboo” subjects, and I didn’t care if people smoked “weed” . . . as long as they didn’t do it near me. But I did care very much about individual liberty, about the Constitution, and about our great country. While I voted mostly Republican, I was kind of just floating along, though leaning Republican after 9/11 . . . until I saw Sarah Palin’s rousing acceptance speech and was floored when Obama was elected with his “fundamental transformation” agenda (if you care to learn more about that, click here). I knew then that I was done with any flirtations with “vote for the person not the party” stuff and that I had to pick a team. I chose Palin’s team, the Tea Party team, the then-nascent American First team.
Anyway, Straka’s video hit a chord not only with me but with thousands of disaffected liberals (lowercase “l”) and Democrats across the nation. It took off, with thousands of people uploading their videos about why they were leaving the Democrat Party. It was a watershed moment, and it was an existential threat to the Democrats. They had to shut it down.
We saw it when Facebook purged thousands of #WalkAway testimonials. We saw it when Straka was caught up in the corrupt Biden-Garland DOJ’s net and sentenced to home confinement and probation over J6.
What we didn’t know but have long suspected is that Straka and his #WalkAway movement were purposefully targeted by the Biden-Garland corruption machine who worked to smear and shut down Straka and his thoroughly legitimate #WalkAway movement. It’s appalling, unAmerican, and unacceptable.
Matt Taibbi covers this complete travesty in detail at his substack and also provided the following on Twitter (X)–click over to read the whole thread:
Democrats have no grassroots movements, so they astroturf “movements” and work to shut down actual populist movements by Americans sick of their perfidy. It’s shameful and disgusting, and it cannot stand.
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