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Meet Brandon Straka, a gay former liberal encouraging others to #WalkAway from Democrats
NBC News ^ | Aug 2018 | Tim Fitzsimmons

Posted on 09/16/2019 12:56:49 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Three months ago, Brandon Straka was a New York City hairstylist and aspiring actor with a small social media following. Now, he's a frequent Fox News contributor with nearly 70,000 Twitter followers, whose posts have been shared by Donald Trump Jr. and Sarah Palin.

His ascent to conservative-media darling began on May 26, when Straka posted a now-viral video describing why he fled the Democratic party.

“Once upon a time, I was a liberal,” Straka says in the six-minute video, looking directly toward the camera. “For years now, I have watched as the left has devolved into intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded and, at times, blatantly fascistic behavior and rhetoric.”

Actor James Woods used the #WalkAway hashtag on June 25, and then Sarah Palin shared a story about Straka on June 30.

“When she tweeted it, then I think people were able to connect the dots that this was more than just a trending hashtag, it was actually a campaign,” Straka said. The next day, Donald J. Trump Jr. posted a tweet using the #WalkAway hashtag, and then things really started to take off.


(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2020election; brandonstraka; election2020; realignment; straka; walkaway
Article is from a year ago. Straka now is now about to hit 250,000 Twitter followers and the movement has since expanded. It incorporates all kinds of former liberals, not just LGBT but #WalkAway recently held LGBT Townhalls in NYC and LA, stirring much buzz.

Great interview between him and Mike Huckabee avail for view on Youtube as well.

1 posted on 09/16/2019 12:56:49 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Walkaway Campaign bump


2 posted on 09/16/2019 1:06:02 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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Brandon’s movement is so important. It would be awesome for it to catch fire over the next 12 months. His videos and messaging has continued to get better.


3 posted on 09/16/2019 1:07:59 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

#WalkAway LGBT Town Hall, Los Angeles (Sep 8, 2019)
https://youtu.be/V4_sogz42Y0

#WalkAway Black Americans Town Hall, Harlem (July, 14, 2019)
https://youtu.be/qDqv5ku6ELY

#WalkAway LGBT Town Hall, New York City (March 28, 2019)
https://youtu.be/fIh_krufFTU

Brandon Straka interview on Mike Huckabee Show
https://youtu.be/eO_-wchKGhs


4 posted on 09/16/2019 1:11:35 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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“Once upon a time, I was a liberal,” Straka says in the six-minute video, looking directly toward the camera. “For years now, I have watched as the left has devolved into intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded and, at times, blatantly fascistic behavior and rhetoric.”

I'm glad he kept it short. A full accounting of the leftist's character would take too long.

5 posted on 09/16/2019 1:29:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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Personally I don’t see why any gay person would support a Democrat Party that is someday going to voluntarily bend over and submit to Sharia.

I would have no desire to get tossed off a building.


6 posted on 09/16/2019 1:36:13 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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The Conservative movement needs every member it can get, homosexual or otherwise.

Glad I'm in before the bashing begins.......IBGBB........

7 posted on 09/16/2019 1:39:34 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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Bump


8 posted on 09/16/2019 1:57:26 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Tennessean4Bush

I agree. Also the Blexit movement. And I like what Candice Owens/Charlie Kirk are doing with the young folks. Prager also has good stuff as well as Breitbart and Free Republic.

I’m telling you guys, there are a lot of good people doing a lot of good things to combat the evil that is trying to take over our Ten Commandants and our Constitution. We are all doing our part. Those of us who are elderly or limited in income...pray.


9 posted on 09/16/2019 2:02:48 PM PDT by Karoo
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Ten Commandants

:)

10 posted on 09/16/2019 2:29:20 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Levin had a nice interview with him on his “Freedom, Liberty, and Levin” show.


11 posted on 09/17/2019 2:37:46 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Brandon Straka: On the #WalkAway Campaign & Media’s “Fabrication of Reality” [Eagle Council Special]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6u-E7ej1s


12 posted on 09/21/2019 6:33:27 PM PDT by Valin
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To: Buckeye McFrog

...and that’s pretty much what Brandon, himself, has said...
I’ve been a supporter for over a year now.


13 posted on 09/24/2019 4:17:56 PM PDT by babyfreep (#WalkAway)
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