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Dec 16, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Rich Logis
America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind of break from the economic status quo continued to ring out in the exit polls, there was a blank space. While it seems to have been missed by most of the pundits, I’ve regarded it as a serious omission: an enveloping misunderstanding among the electorate about what American capitalism actually is.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Rich Logis
On money matters, I once supported the president-elect with full throat. I now see how his ideas could take down our nation.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
sun-sentinel.com | Paula Dockery |Rich Logis |Greg Wilson
As Donald Trump and his campaign become increasingly extreme, irresponsible and hateful, presenting policies that will only take us backward, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz are offering something different. They’re presenting a clear vision to save our democracy and finally turn the page on Trump, as we try to move toward a positive direction for all Americans.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Rich Logis
In 2016, I was a dedicated supporter of Donald Trump. I devoted considerable effort to elect and reelect the former president, writing campaign scripts, working at phone banks, assisting voter registration, guiding voters to polls and persuading politically uncertain Americans to support Trump. I unapologetically supported Trump. However, I now realize his disruptions were damaging to our democracy. This November, we face a choice between stability — Vice President Harris — and chaos — Trump.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
salon.com | Rich Logis
I was a MAGA volunteer and activist from the beginning of the Trump campaign in 2015 right through to 2022. Here’s what you might not know: The MAGA faithful I knew loathed Ronna McDaniel, who led the Republican National Committee through most of that period, nearly as much as they (and I) loathed the Democratic Party and everyone else perceived as enemies of Donald Trump and his movement. To us, in fact, she was never Ronna McDaniel. As the niece of 2012 Republican nominee turned U.S. Sen.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Rich Logis
NBC News’s recent hiring of Ronna McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, has baffled Democrats, journalists, and pretty much all of MSNBC’s star anchors. But to those who remain deep in the thrall of MAGA—and those, like me, who escaped it—it was utterly unsurprising that a mainstream (i.e. “fake”) news organization would shell out $300,000 a year for McDaniel’s point of view.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Rich Logis
In this ongoing series, Logis, a former Donald Trump supporter and founder of Perfect Our Union, answers our readers' questions about leaving the MAGA movement. Send your questions to [email protected]. I spent more than half a decade meeting or communicating daily with fellow MAGA Americans. Those myriad exchanges and conversations were often with highly intelligent, educated, successful and accomplished professionals. Attorneys. Doctors. Financial executives. Small-business owners.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Rich Logis
In this ongoing series, Logis, a former Donald Trump supporter and founder of Perfect Our Union, answers our readers' questions about leaving the MAGA movement. Send your questions to [email protected]. A reader asks: How can I accept into the conversation about the future of our country those who support a candidate and movement that disavows our own Constitution, does not believe in the peaceful transfer of power and proposes ending elections?
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Rich Logis
Logis, a former member of the Republican Party and conservative pundit, is the founder of Perfect Our Union, an organization dedicated to healing political traumatization and building diverse, pro-democracy alliances. This is the first in a series of articles titled “Ask Rich.”I left MAGA in the summer of 2022. As we get to know each other, I'll get into more specifics as to why I left.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
salon.com | Rich Logis
Nikki Haley is not a racist. She showed formidable leadership as South Carolina governor, in the aftermath of the 2015 mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in her state. But as a former MAGA activist now working to persuade people to leave the MAGA movement, I see Haley's recent comments on the Civil War and slavery in a particular light.
