Given that my “walk away” moment was in 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his candidacy, I’m so glad to see this happening on such a wide and (finally) visible scale.

It’s been going on in the Trump era since the President announced he was running but hadn’t really become a coherent movement in and of itself; until Straka came along to put his spin on it, it had been an element of the movement to make America great again, often in a big way (e.g. millions of Obama voters went for Trump in 2016, and more minorities per demographic voted for him than voted for either Romney or McCain) but not necessarily as a thing in and of itself. Straka’s campaign has kind of changed that, solidifying the byproduct of the political shifts we’ve experienced and broadcasting out to the world that no, it’s not GOP misinformation or “Russian…