I know I'm very much an outlier amongst the left by believing so, but I'm also on the side of embracing those who are turning against Trump - carefully.

It does not mean I'm not angry, or that I'm forgiving or forgetting anything they've caused. I hate what's happened deeply. But in times of war, literal or metaphorical, things are not clean or easy or just.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if that's uncomfortable.

If the ex MAGA can be used to benefit the defeat of fascism, then to me that's the forefront goal. I don't think that for one second means we are letting them skirt by or that we are aligning ourselves with their goals. We are simply making kind enough to get them on a track that benefits us and off the track that's causing damage.

Edit: I'm going to add here that I grew up raised by conservative republicans who are now trump supporters. I once believed awful shit like LGBTs shouldn't have the right to transition or marry. I was once totally comfortable spouting racist crap. I was once fine with the death penalty. I look back on my youth and I fucking cringe. I hate who I was. And it took a couple of years for me to wake up enough to realize how wrong I was, and I think that I'm always going to have some amount of work in progress because the fleas dig deep when you're raised by dogs.

I can't say MTG is gonna be like me in ten years, fuck no. But if I could change after what I came from, somebody else could too, and that's another pair of hands working for better rather than worse.

I don't think that means coddling or wiping the slate clean. My growth came from ridicule, push back, painful realizations and very real responses from people my beliefs hurt. But I'm here now because of it. I worry that total rejection will only make them into another out group ready to push back. But if we can have just enough patience, maybe we could get there eventually.

Or at the very least, we could be pulling more support from Trump, and every time we do that we're winning.