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       I’m Amanda Marcotte, a Salon journalist who has covered the Christian right and now the MAGA movement for almost two decades. Ask me anything!
    





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    I’m Amanda Marcotte and I’ve been a senior politics writer at Salon since 2015. Before then, I was a feminist journalist who wrote for Slate, the Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, USA Today, and the LA Times, among other places. Because so much of my work focused on the anti-abortion movement, I came to understand the Christian right deeply. I’m also the black sheep progressive in a right-wing family from Texas. I went to the RNC and chatted with delegates in both 2016 and 2024 and, yes, endured listening to Donald Trump speak.
  
    Put all of it together, and I have been in a good place to explain the MAGA movement’s rise and the psychology of the people behind it to a liberal audience that, understandably, doesn’t get why these folks think the way they do. A lot of people are — again, understandably — bewildered that nearly half the country is ready again to vote for a reality TV host who tried to overthrow democracy. Hopefully, I can help illuminate some of these issues, though even I occasionally find myself surprised by how bad things are. Like when my mom defended January 6 to me while the rioters were still in the building.
  
    I also live in the swing state of Pennsylvania and my partner owns a Philly record store that, randomly, was visited by Doug Emhoff. Ask me anything!
  
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    Edit: Thank you for all your great questions! I wish I had time to take all of them, but I hope what we discussed today is helpful. I certainly know I learned a lot from hearing from y’all.
  



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