Don't sign up for the party. Sign up for the values that we agree on and then make sure that any party that gets your vote is adhering to those values.

That's the way to be a powerful force in American politics,

and frankly, it's a powerful enough force to write the ship

and put it back on course.

Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I have the distinct pleasure of sitting this morning with

Brandon Strach, who is the founder of the Walkaway Movement. He has interesting stories to tell,

and I think this is going to be a fascinating episode.

Brandon, welcome to Dark Horse.

Thanks for having me.

So let's talk a bit about what the walkaway movement is. I believe I had a misapprehension about it, which

led me over the course of a couple of years to say some things that I now regret and I just want to make sure my understanding of what it is is accurate.

So tell us about walk away.

Yeah, well and that's really understandable actually because I there's been a lot of sort of misreporting on both sides about what we are and what our mission is.

But essentially I started to walk away about six and a half years ago in May of 2018 because I myself was a lifelong Democrat and liberal who, you know, two-time Obama supporter,

Hillary Clinton voter in 2016 and really bought into the left-wing media narrative and liberal ideology.

And when Trump got elected, I had a massive awakening, really it was like an earthquake kind of in my life which I'm sure

we'll kind of get into the story but basically I had this massive awakening after

Trump got elected in 2016 and that awakening

wasn't just that I'd been lied to about Trump and that I'd been lied to about

what modern conservatism is but also so much of what I'd been believing in as a liberal and fighting for as

a liberal was really antithetical to all of my values and and what I believe in and when I realized that I was being lied to and

betrayed and particularly the way that I think the left is lying to and betraying minorities

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