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#Walkaway movement urges liberals to abandon Democrats
By Mary Kay Linge
October 27, 2018 | 3:51pm
Furious former Democrats — fed up at the party’s leftward lurch — are banding together in protest under the banner of the #Walkaway movement.
The five-month-old online effort pushes the idea of abandoning a party that, members say, has become allergic to dissent and hostile to moderate voices.
“Democrats seem so angry, like they’ve turned hard left into socialism,†said Maureen Holland of Deer Park, L.I. “It’s very scary to me.â€
“We’ve had a huge surge since the Kavanaugh hearings,†said Brandon Straka, organizer of the campaign, who says its Facebook group has grown to 205,000 members.
Holland’s is one of the thousands of testimonials posted to the page. She shared her joy at changing her party registration after 30 years as a Democrat on Oct. 17.
Straka, of Manhattan, sparked the group in June with a slick six-minute video testimonial that’s been viewed 385,000 times on YouTube.
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