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Hey, everyone, Rich Comitee here on Midas Touch Network at LeavingMAGA.org.

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As the old maxim goes, we've got MAGA deja vu all over again.

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In all the times I've recounted my story, I always say that one of the reasons

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that I left MAGA over two years ago was because of the acceptance

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of avoidable deaths, suffering and trauma,

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and just the blatant disregard of human life.

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And in watching the president's press conference on the plane crash in DC,

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it was deja vu all over again.

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And it reminded me of all of those insufferable

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COVID pressers when Trump was mismanaging the pandemic.

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And there is also this obsession that the president has with former

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President Obama, which is a topic for another episode.

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But I just happened to observe that when I was watching the presser.

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You know, there are lots of people keep asking me, Rich,

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when is it going to be enough for MAGA voters?

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And look, I understand your exasperation, but I want to implore you.

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Be patient.

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There are many MAGA voters who are going to become disillusioned

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when they realize that Trump is going to fix little of anything for them.

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And there's going to be one unnecessary death too many.

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There's going to be one lie too many.

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And I know that asking for patience, the lies are sensitive.

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There's a sense of urgency.

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But as.

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I used to say all the time in sales, and I'm going to repeat here,

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we cannot push a rope.

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And to give you my insider take on all this, you have to realize that there's no

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ideology within MAGA and the closest to an ideology is a conviction

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that liberalism poses constant existential threats to our lives,

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our livelihoods, our families, our nation and our values.

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And I allowed myself to succumb rapidly to this belief.

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And granted, I, as well as those with whom I congregated.

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We didn't think of our opposition this way.

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We didn't think about liberalism.

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It's not something I really talked about.

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It's not what other fellow MAGA compatriots talked about around me

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because we opposed anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives

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with the same zeal and vigor as we as we did and opposed

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Democrats, liberals and progressives.

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But this hostility toward liberalism

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as something that.

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Features only evils for ourselves in our country.

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That was and remains the foundation of the MAGA community in the movement.

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And it's really important that we highlight this next point,

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which is that Trump is just following what his surrogates tell him to say.

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He never had any interest in actual governing.

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And I thought that he did back in 2015 and 16.

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I thought he was the right guy for the job because I thought he wanted

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the job for the right reasons. But I was wrong about that.

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So he's not he his his presidency is going to be defined

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by the people around him and his influences, whether it's MAGA pundits

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or influencers or whether it's the Heritage Foundations of America.

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And the panic about diversity within MAGA is what makes it easy for Trump

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to blame DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion, and to blame former

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Presidents Obama and Trump and to question the competence

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and intelligence of minorities, most especially black Americans.

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And he's doing that because those

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with whom he surrounded himself.

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Are telling him to do that and to say that and that if solely

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white people worked in the FAA, no such accident like occurred this week

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that tragedy would have ever happened.

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So take a listen to this clip.

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This is from the press conference, and I'm going to make a comment

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about it in a moment.

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They're in office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program.

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And then another article, the Federal Aviation Administration.

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This was before I got to office recently, second term.

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The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual

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disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions

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under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out

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on the agency's website.

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Can you imagine these are people that are?

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I mean, actually, their lives are shortened because of the stress

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that they have.

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Brilliant people have to be in those positions and their lives are actually

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shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress

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where you have many, many planes coming into one target.

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You know what? I want to say this and their view.

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Some of you out there might disagree with this point, and that's

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completely fair and I respect that.

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And I could be wrong, but in listening to that clip and in listening

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to most of the press conference, I don't think the president actually believed

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what he was saying.

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Yes, he's being told to say it.

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So in that way, he's just following orders.

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The president is very much a lackey for those who with whom he's

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put into his administration to serve as a leader.

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So I don't I don't actually think he believes what he's saying.

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And I'm no I'm not an expert in trying to psychologically diagnose people.

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I don't agree with doing that.

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I'm not a body language expert, but man, I'm sitting there thinking, does

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he really actually believe this?

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And I'm inclined to say that I don't think he does.

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But the kind of statements that it's because of DEI and the

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it's because of DEI that there are dozens and dozens of people who so sadly died.

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Keeping Americans and saying that in these perpetual states of desperation

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and panic and despair and hopelessness because of a smaller and increasingly

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smaller white American population is more important than the truth.

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It's key to emphasize this keeping MAGA in these states of panic is more

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important than the truth and persuading aggrieved MAGA Americans into believing

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that they are the victims of myriad conspiracies against them.

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That complements the politicization of those deaths, trauma and suffering.

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And you can compare and contrast the way that our current president

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talked about this incident with former President Obama.

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Here's here's his tweet that he put out.

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OK, you can you can find it at his social media.

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This is what former President Obama was saying, because that's what a person

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who tries to humanize the situation does.

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And that's that's something that I. Liberatingly, but painfully came to

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realize about MAGA, which was that it's it's a prerequisite to dehumanize others.

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That there's this there is this acceptance of death.

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There is this disregard of human life.

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And at our site at Leaving MAGA.org, we have an open letter

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entitled Dear MAGA Americans.

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And on that letter, here's here's what we write.

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Put it on the screen here for you.

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It says Dear MAGA Americans, I want to say you do not deserve

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to have your anxieties about change exploited.

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You deserve to know the truth.

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And with leaving MAGA, you don't have to feel you would be alone

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if you leave the movement.

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And I said in my last video here at the Minus Touch Network that even

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though I understand the temptation to say I told you so when when when

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disillusioned and disenchanted MAGA Americans start, it starts to dawn

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on them that that they're not getting what they bought.

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And there's going to be that buyer's remorse.

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I would ask an employee to please refrain from saying I told you so,

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because just like I write in this letter at our site at Leaving MAGA,

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at the Dear MAGA Americans appeal, we want those in MAGA who start

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to have doubts.

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We want to give them an exit ramp and an off ramp.

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MAGA is nearly wholly based in feelings.

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So the F your feelings is just a marketing slogan.

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