For years, Democrats like me have watched with increasing alarm as our own political leaders and activists – from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to media outlets like MSNBC – have used an endless stream of hateful, violent and ultimately un-American rhetoric that has resulted in billions of dollars in economic damage and given birth to a violent national movement...

  Taken together – the bigotry of the Democrat base, the violence encouraged by Democrat leaders, the actual physical harm perpetrated by hysterical followers – one can’t help but escape from the obvious conclusion: the Democrat Party has become irredeemable.

  For Democrats like me, we have no choice: we have to leave.

-Bryan Dean Wright

In 2018, a disillusioned liberal by the name of Brandon Straka started the #WalkAway Campaign. Tired of the lies and the bankrupt leadership of the new Left, Straka encouraged other disaffected liberals to stand up for themselves and leave the Democrat plantation. As a grassroots effort, it was impressive in its independence and willingness to speak truth to power.

-Max Morton

Sometimes people ask me how I, as a member of the very liberal newspaper industry, came to be a conservative. The answer is that I’ve been around liberals enough to know that we don’t want them running —— well, anything...

  Why am I a conservative? Because I know liberals. There is no grace there. No love there. Only hatred and judgment and pettiness.

-Will Davis

Ann McElhinney on Environmentalists

If you dare not to protest or boycott Trump, you are a traitor.

If you dare to question liberal stances or make an effort toward understanding why conservatives think the way they do, you are a traitor.

It can seem like liberals are actually against free speech if it fails to conform with the way they think. And I don’t want to be a part of that club anymore.

Sarah Silverman: Democrats "So F***ing Elitist"...

It’s the absolutist-ness (sic) of the party I am in that is such a turnoff to me. It’s so f***ing elitist, you know? For something called ‘progressive,’ it allows for zero progress. It’s all or nothing, no steps toward, all or f***ing nothing. Again, righteousness porn…

Dave Rubin: Why I Left The Left

I’m a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph or decorate my wedding. But you’d be wrong.

A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine. If a baker won’t bake you a cake, find another baker; don’t demand that the state tell him what to do with his private business.

-Dave Rubin

  We rushed to cast everyone in one of three roles: victim, victimizer, or champion of the oppressed. We lived our lives in a constant state of outraged indignation.

  I did not want to live that way anymore. I wanted to cultivate a disposition of gratitude. I wanted to see others, not as victims or victimizers, but as potential friends, as loved creations of God.

Marxists are great psychological manipulators. It is their one great talent, and it is enough that it nearly makes up for all their other intellectual shortcomings, which are legion. Most folks are vulnerable, at some level.

And resisting psychological manipulation is not easy for most people. It's not enough to just say "don't be brainwashed."

My disillusionment with the left began slowly with simple disagreements about immigration and uncomfortable conversations where I found myself being labeled a racist despite not only no evidence of such but generally ludicrous logic behind the claims; one gay leftist even called me a white supremacist because the people I've dated in the past (a whopping four individuals) were all Caucasian.

Changing Her Mind...

  Amala Ekpunobi grew up in a leftist home and worked as an organizer for the political left. She never questioned the narrative - until she discovered the racism she thought she was fighting against was being perpetuated by her side.

  “We are bringing back segregation in this country, and people will sell it to you that we are doing it in a positive manner...it perpetuates the same racist narrative that they are trying to run away from.”

  Amala shares her story of questioning leftist ideology, which ultimately led to changing her mind.

  Thankfully, while these guilt trips used to work on me, no longer. Their white guilt is their problem, not mine.

  They can grovel in their self-hatred and parade their bleeding hearts all day in a futile effort at redemption. But when I left New England, I left that crap behind."

Democrat, Mugged by Reality...

"I know this sounds naive. I didn’t think the left was so mean. I didn’t think the left lied like this. I thought the right did that. I thought we were better."

Trump: The First Black President...

"I ran the NFL players for Obama, I’ve been a Democrat all my life … and you changed me, you changed me, you touched me, and you made my work go to another level, you inspire me.

 Mr. President, I don’t mean to interrupt, but I’ve got to say this because it’s Black History Month: Man, you the first black president."

Stepping Back and Questioning the Hate...

You see, I was one of those Democrats who considered anyone who voted for Trump a racist. I thought they were horrible (yes, even deplorable) and worked very hard to eliminate their voices from my spaces by unfriending or blocking people who spoke about their support of him, however minor their comments.

I watched a lot of MSNBC, was convinced that everything he had done was horrible, that he hated anyone who wasn’t a straight white man, and that he had no redeeming qualities.

But when I witnessed the amount of hate coming from the left in this small, niche knitting community, I started to question everything.

2021: The Turn...

  Instinctively, we looked to the Democratic Party, the only home we and our parents and their parents before them had ever known or seriously considered. But what we saw there—and in the newspapers we used to read, and in the schools whose admission letters once made us so proud—was terrifying. However we tried to explain what was happening on “the left,” it was hard to convince ourselves that it was right, or that it was something we still truly believed in. That is what The Turn is about...

  You are living through The Turn if you think that burning down towns and looting stores isn’t the best way to promote social justice, but feel you can’t say so because you know you’ll be called a white supremacist...

  If the left is going to make it “right wing” to simply be decent, then it’s OK to be right.

The seeds of doubt need to be planted...

  Thus, for the time being, while some conservatives hope in vain for an honest debate with the other side or for reality to set in, they can push for a little more sanity and take stock in the fact that their liberal friends are not malicious—they’ve just been systematically duped.

  This means we have to take on the burden of moving past the usual insults leftists hurl at conservatives and teach them truths they are never allowed to hear. The seeds of doubt need to be planted. In most cases, they may not bear fruit, but in other cases they may. At the very least, inconvenient facts from the other side may check the conditioning process.

Democrats are leaving their party more in sorrow than in anger, but leaving it they are, sickened by the Democratic Party’s hard left turn. Tens of thousands are telling their stories on the #walkaway movement’s public Facebook page. Their YouTube videos are a fascinating window into the innermost thoughts of kind, thoughtful people across America—all former Democrats.

  My personal favorites are what I call “nice ladies driven away by Democrat hate.” During and after the election, many women stopped buying what the Dems are selling. They come from every generation, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and region of America.

  These women warm my heart because I have been waiting and hoping that ordinary Democratic voters would be revolted by their party’s embrace of vitriol and violence.

-Karin McQuillan

Ordinary Americans simply don't like leftists very much.

  And when Hollywood and Silicon Valley unite to tell them they are stupid, are ignorant, are racist, are homophobic, hate Muslims, and shouldn't love America so much, what do they expect the reaction from ordinary people will be?

-Rick Moran

The women from all generations speaking out through the #walkaway movement are splendidly patriotic. They are rejecting the Democratic Party because the party is rejecting America.

  I am in love with these women’s voices. It is heartening to witness people defying the Democrats’ thought police, doing their own research, thinking for themselves.

-Karin McQuillan

So this Democrat will take the same sensible step as others before me. It’s time to leave the hateful, violent and un-American Democrat Party.

-Bryan Dean Wright