Like the Democrats were the boogeyman.

Basically.

Oh, it gets worse because keep in mind, even though like 9-11 was like happened like almost like 10 years at that point.

So there was a lot of anti-Islamic sentiments that kind of went a little bit along the lines of.

So there are these people.

They're called Muslims, and they want to invoke a thing called Sharia law, which, by the way, I just recently hooked up what that even means.

And let's just say it's a bunch of buzzwords.

Can you give us an example of what you mean?

ashton it's good to see you good to be with you how you doing pretty good how about yourself everything's good thank you so much for being here let's let's just get right into it for viewers so ashton take us through a little bit about your upbringing and how some of that upbringing led you to support trump in the mega movement

so i was about 11 years old whenever trump went down the golden escalator um so with me being 22 mag has been uh around for at least half of my life um so for for those who uh who I guess underestimate the the impact of MAGA on current society.

Yeah, it's been going on that long.

So it's been it's been a very, very long time.

So what happened and how I got I got into it.

was um so growing up i came from a very republican uh right-wing family um specifically on my maternal side i wasn't really close to my maternal side for the longest amount of time because my dad um he was he was in out of prison for a couple years and just to control substance charges stuff like that so because that like i was around my mom's side a lot my mom being a single parent for the longest amount of time i was around my grandparents a lot whenever i was about six years old my maternal grandmother decided to go ahead and introduce me to um her political views and um so at first it was kind of like a stuff like really simple like you know kind of like uh um i remember one of our first conversations being about famine and like a kind of like a how people can prevent situations where you can't really find food, can't really find water.

But then it quickly went from stuff like that to there is a man who is the US president right now and his name is Barack Obama and he is very bad news, just so you know.

What were the reasons that led you to start to question your support for MAGA and then eventually made you leave?