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Doug Pagitt, of “Life Beyond MAGA: Healing the Divide,” says a common thread running through the MAGA movement are the fractured families and marriages that have resulted from people falling out over political beliefs.
Pagitt likes to think of political and social movements as food trucks. Whether the food truck is selling Indian food or tacos, everyone in line is there to get the same thing. When it comes to MAGA, however, Pagitt likens it more to an airport.
“People are there for all kinds of reasons,” Pagitt said. “Some people are working, some people are coming home, some people are leaving home, some people are passing through, but they find themselves in the same place.
For all of them, there’s some shared experience… They find a group of folks who are thinking similarly to them, but they’re not all there for precisely the same reasons.”