I thought this post of this woman's journey was excellent.

A lifelong, deep-blue Democrat. Raised in the system. Believed the talking points. Trusted the party. Never questioned it—because she genuinely thought they were the ones who cared.

Then she did something dangerous in today’s world:

she paid attention.

She didn’t “flip overnight.”

She didn’t rage-quit out of anger.

She noticed patterns. She questioned narratives. She followed her intuition when things stopped making sense.

Woman: "Hi everyone, I have been so inspired by Brandon’s hashtag “left the Democratic Party” … why I left … and I thought I’d get on here and share my own story. It’s pretty personal, but for most of my adult life I was a deep blue Democrat. I was raised by a mother who was on welfare and really sucked the system for food stamps and all of the things and she was a big, big Democrat. Like, Obama was her man—Obamacare and everything. And so I always voted Democrat. I really didn’t question it. I just ...