Is This The DUMBEST Trump Supporter On Earth??

[00:00:00]I met Robin Williams in person in Dallas. I've also met Marilyn Monroe in Dallas in person.

[00:00:07]>> Marilyn Monroe. She'd be very old right now, right?

[00:00:10]>> Meds.

[00:00:12]Let's Well, she is.

[00:00:13]>> So, if you met Robin Williams in Dallas, what what did he look like?

[00:00:16]>> Robin Williams.

[00:00:18]>> He was disguised as the mayor of >> Dallas.

[00:00:23]>> What's up everybody? Major retired O Jetta here. Having doubts, you are not alone. That is the message former Trump supporters are putting on billboards across America. And after seeing what some people still trapped inside the MAGA movement believe, those billboards may need to be a whole lot bigger.

[00:00:38]Because the good liars just found two women in Dallas who apparently believe Robin Williams came back from the great beyond and spent a weekend impersonating the mayor.

[00:00:47]>> Robin Williams was disguised as the mayor of Dallas. Does the mayor of Dallas exist or is that Robin Williams always?

[00:00:54]>> No.

[00:00:55]>> Yeah, I don't think it's always him. But I think sometimes there's like arrangements made.

[00:01:00]>> Sometimes these people did bad things.

[00:01:03]So they said, "Oh, we'll give you a break, but you have to do this."

[00:01:06]>> Right. So, >> and then Robin Williams, one of the most famous people, celebrities, you know, in the last 60 years, >> he was put in place of the mayor of Dallas, I believe, or just for that weekend.

[00:01:17]>> It was that weekend. Just for that weekend.

[00:01:19]>> You just said that out loud.

[00:01:20]>> Yeah.

[00:01:20]>> Does that not seem a little out there?

[00:01:22]These two were so lost in delusion they cannot find their way back to reality with a map, a flashlight, and a search party. But here's the part that actually matters. Some people who once believed equally ridiculous things are beginning to question what they were told. And more of them than ever are now asking for help getting out.

[00:01:41]>> I was unapologetically a MAGA and Trump supporter. [music] Rich Logas is the founder and CEO of Leaving MAGA, a nonprofit for those disillusioned by the movement. The group, which Logus says is funded entirely by small donors, [music] provides support groups, dradicalization resources, and a platform for members to share their experiences. After I left in 2022, [music] I realized that because MAGA is a community itself to leave. I thought that I should build a community for people who also decide to leave.

[00:02:16]>> These are people waking up after years long political bender looking around at the damaged relationships, the broken promises, and all the ridiculous things they defended and finally admitting that the Kool-Aid was making them sick.

[00:02:27]>> I met my now husband in 2021. He is a black man and he saw a Trump flag on my profile and he was like, "Hey, could you read White Fragility? I'd really love it if you would." And I did and it it was very interesting because I was terrified of that book up until that point. And I read it and it wasn't even as scary as I thought it was going to be. And they made me watch a documentary on January 6th and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior to the PBS documentary. And I looked at him and I said, "Scott, did that really happen?"

[00:02:55]and he was like, "Where have you been?"

[00:02:58]>> Hearing you guys talk about MAGA and about supporting Trump, it sounds like you're talking often about like a cult that's damaging, >> right?

[00:03:07]>> Yeah.

[00:03:08]>> But he's the president of the United States and it's not a cult. It's like the dominant political ideology of the United States in this moment.

[00:03:18]>> You know, we all have a need for community. Um, our species yearns for a communal existence. And what MAGA does provide is a place where people feel seen and heard and recognized and their some of their very valid fears and concerns are acknowledged and validated.

[00:03:41]We used to say, "We're not in the cult.

[00:03:43]The outside world is the cult." And we're not the crazies. The outside world are the crazies.

[00:03:48]>> Because MAGA was never just an ideology.

[00:03:51]For many of them, it became a way of coping with fear, loneliness, disappointment, and the desperate need to belong. It offered simple answers, convenient enemies, and a father figure who promised that everything would be all right as long as they stayed loyal, stopped asking questions, and blamed somebody else whenever another promise fell apart. That is not freedom. That is codependent, emotionally abusive relationship with the political movement that rewards obedience and punishes doubt. And the first step toward getting out is the same first step in almost any kind of recovery. Admit that there is a problem. We heard from an array of the group's members.

[00:04:27]>> I grew up really poor. So, a lot of my friends parents would be responsible for helping me get to prom or making sure I had, you know, new shoes for school. And they were all MAGA. And it was very much this constant conversation of if you want to have nice things, be a Republican. Look at what we have. Look what we're doing for you. They say Republicans are cruel and heartless, but look, I'm taking care of you. If I was cruel and heartless, would I do that?

[00:04:50]>> I really wanted acceptance with my father, and my father was very much into Fox News, so that was something that we would connect on.

[00:04:59]>> It's so hard for people. Cuz I said, it's it's not that you're dumb, you were fooled. That's incredibly hard to admit.

[00:05:06]>> Different people, different wounds, same sales pitch. MAGA gave them belonging.

[00:05:12]It gave them certainty. It gave them somebody to blame and it gave them a political daddy who promised to protect them as long as they never questioned him. Listen to those stories and ask yourself, do these sound like happy, secure people, or do they sound like people trying to survive? Because Donald Trump did not create every wound they carried. He just figured out how to crawl inside those wounds, hang campaign signs on the walls, and start charging rent. That propaganda usually holds until it crashes into something the person knows firsthand. For the respiratory therapist, that moment came during CO. Magdia told her masks did not help stop respiratory viruses while her professional training told her otherwise. Then her husband developed long CO could no longer work and she had to return to respiratory therapy.

[00:05:58]Reality had finally kicked the door in.

[00:06:01]For others, the change began when they turned off Fox News, started getting information from other sources, or trusted someone enough to read a book or watch a documentary they had been taught to fear. And that is when the hardest realization arrives. It is not that they were stupid, they were fooled. But admitting you were fooled can feel like pulling one card from the bottom of the entire house. If the election was not stolen, if January 6 was not patriotism, if the experts were not all lying, then what else did they do wrong? That is why so many people doubled down. At that point, they are no longer protecting the facts. They are protecting their pride.

[00:06:37]But the people in leaving MAGA finally reached a point where being honest mattered more than being right. They switched off the propaganda, let new information into their lives, and asked the one question the movement cannot survive. What if I was wrong? That is what leaving MAGA is trying to do. They are tearing down the lies, rebuilding broken relationships, and reminding people that admitting you were fooled does not make you weak. It means the light is finally coming on. So when someone begins questioning the conspiracies and looking for the exit, keep the door open because people can change. Having doubts, you are not alone. And that is an absolute fact.

[00:07:17]Sappers clear the way.