Conservatives Who Are Not MAGA Shared What People Get Wrong About Them

“I want to see more fiscal restraint, and MAGA is not that.”

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"America was built on being a melting pot of people, but I do not agree with illegal immigrants. You enter a country the legal and correct and right way. But I sure as hell do not agree with how Trump and his group are handling it. I am terrified to even speak up in today's world about having conservative values because I am automatically assumed to be a racist, anti-gay, white supremacist — when that is very far from the truth. Do I like today's Democrats and how they handle things? No way! But they are the lesser of the two evils at this point."

"I try not to watch the news because I don’t want to even hear his name. I work with a few MAGA maniacs who love him, but now that their utilities are going up and they can’t afford things like food, gas, or medicine, they are starting to see the light. January 20, 2029 seems so far away, but I'm looking forward to it!"

"My Catholicism is grounded in respect for the dignity of all persons and compassion for the least among us. This is directly at odds with the loud, cruel, laughably situational Christianity claimed by many in Trump's movement. My conservatism — my inclination to conserve our rights, constrain the state, and secure an enduring global peace — is the opposite of these cruel main characters and their hordes of unserious, cringey NPCs."

"Non-MAGA Republicans are not closet Democrats and are not closet progressives. We don't agree with where the Democratic Party is going. Our party is abandoning us, but that doesn't mean the other party is embracing us."

"Mostly, I believe that many of us can get along much better than we already do if we just stop highlighting all of our differences and lumping people together into groups based on assumptions. And we should start TALKING to each other. We don't all need to be enemies, but I feel like in this era, some people prefer that."