Brandon Straka has started a power political movement called #WalkAway. It’s a call to all Democrats who are sick and tired of the rhetoric that the Left is using to destroy our country.

It started the night of the 2016 Presidential Election, when Brandan Straka found himself devastated to learn that his candidate: Hillary Clinton, had lost the Presidency to the racist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic DONALD TRUMP.

As a Progessive, gay man…Straka was terrified. Having been told that Donald Trump was going to take away all of his rights, he and his friends believed that Donald Trump was literally, “Hitler”. That night, he went home, and tried to understand how so many of the people in his country could have voted for such a horrible person. He started to look for answers on social media.

A close relative had sent him an email. She was a Trump supporter. Although Brandon was disillusioned with her, he loved and respected her enough to hear her point of view.

Being an intellectually honest individual, Brandon was genuinely looking for answers. He knew that 60 million people in the country couldn’t possibly be “Hitler” supporters. He also possessed the humility to see what everyone outside of his small social group could see: That they couldn’t possibly be the only “smart” people in the whole country.

Something wasn’t adding up.

This is the beginning of Brandon’s story. It is really best if you hear it from him.

Brandon mentioned a video that his relative shared with him. This video demonstrated how the media had manipulated the story of Donald Trump mocking a disabled person. It was THIS video that opened Brandon’s eyes. Once he saw the way the media had expertly edited the video (and then crafted the narrative), he knew he had to dig deeper.

The second half of Brandon’s story is how he was treated by his friends, once he started to share the information he found. Brandon was silly enough to think that his friends would be excited to learn that Trump really wasn’t the scary person that they were told he was. They didn’t have to be afraid!

What he encountered will not come as a surprise to most of us. It turned out that his friends weren’t interested in being encouraged, and it really wasn’t about “being afraid” of Trump. They actually just needed to hate him. Facts didn’t matter. They didn’t want to hear it. It was too late for Brandon. Once he had seen the truth he couldn’t go back. Unwittingly, he had become their enemy.

Towards the end of his interview, he said that the #WalkAway movement had to be led by a gay man. Why? Because he too had known what it was like to live in the shadows, and not feel safe to be himself. He knows as well as any Trump supporter, how violent, hateful, manipulative and intolerant those on the Left are to those who don’t agree with their ideology. So much so, that those on the Right (in many cases) have retreated into “The closet”…Which is why Brandon feels he can identify with them.

This young, gay man…having been treated like complete and utter shit by his peers, has #WalkedAway.

Now he is OURS, and I am grateful. Brandon says he has our backs, and we have his.

Thank you Brandon for having the courage to stand up to the Progressive Left… A party that has only one core value: Hating Trump. Thank you for your courage to #WalkAway.