Thanks for this article, Christian, and the reminders for how to best connect with audiences who may not be with us now—but who have much more in common than we think. As a fellow hippie hometown resident, this really resonated!
Hi Kana. Thank you! I really enjoyed your piece and how you shared your experience growing up in Eugene. I think I left a comment on your piece as well. I grew up largely in western New England, so very similar indeed. Hope you'll stay in touch!
thanks Christian. . As a former hippie, I've witnessed plenty of right-to-left political conversions, but not nearly as many as the transformations that occur when ordinary citizens put their names on the ballot and enter the political battlefield. MAGA understands its marks, while the marks often don't realize they're being targeted. The MAHA movement illustrates this perfectly. The corporations you mention weren't worried about Alex Clark or MAHA—they simply called Trump when glyphosate regulation threatened their interests. (I just wrote a Substack on listening and persuasion https://ralphrosenberg.substack.com, directed to my Dem Party and progressive friends and campaigns(
Thanks, Ralph! Appreciate you reading and sharing that insight. Glad to hear you've witnessed some right-to-left conversions too. That should give us all some hope!
None of us want to welcome hardcore MAGA supporters. Their bigotry and hatred are inexcusable. Of course, that isn't what this piece is about. It's about how people who feel unheard or misunderstood can get sucked into the periphery of a cult movement. That's exactly what MAHA is: never originally part of MAGA itself, but annexed by MAGA as a means of growing their base to win. Even if we don't want to welcome some of those people to be our personal friends, should we not want to create some daylight between them and the malignant coalition they've been pulled into?
Thanks for this article, Christian, and the reminders for how to best connect with audiences who may not be with us now—but who have much more in common than we think. As a fellow hippie hometown resident, this really resonated!
Hi Kana. Thank you! I really enjoyed your piece and how you shared your experience growing up in Eugene. I think I left a comment on your piece as well. I grew up largely in western New England, so very similar indeed. Hope you'll stay in touch!
Yes!! I loved hearing from you. It’s nice to see so much resonance across communities.
thanks Christian. . As a former hippie, I've witnessed plenty of right-to-left political conversions, but not nearly as many as the transformations that occur when ordinary citizens put their names on the ballot and enter the political battlefield. MAGA understands its marks, while the marks often don't realize they're being targeted. The MAHA movement illustrates this perfectly. The corporations you mention weren't worried about Alex Clark or MAHA—they simply called Trump when glyphosate regulation threatened their interests. (I just wrote a Substack on listening and persuasion https://ralphrosenberg.substack.com, directed to my Dem Party and progressive friends and campaigns(
Thanks, Ralph! Appreciate you reading and sharing that insight. Glad to hear you've witnessed some right-to-left conversions too. That should give us all some hope!
If they strayed to maga thru maha I don't want them back
None of us want to welcome hardcore MAGA supporters. Their bigotry and hatred are inexcusable. Of course, that isn't what this piece is about. It's about how people who feel unheard or misunderstood can get sucked into the periphery of a cult movement. That's exactly what MAHA is: never originally part of MAGA itself, but annexed by MAGA as a means of growing their base to win. Even if we don't want to welcome some of those people to be our personal friends, should we not want to create some daylight between them and the malignant coalition they've been pulled into?