She was in Trump's Maga 'cult' - now she's fighting far-right extremism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : And Republicans who identify strongly with their party tend to prefer Trump overwhelmingly, as evidenced in the Republican primaries, which the former president swept.
44% : In an age of deepening political polarization, Swan's story, of going deep into the Maga movement and defecting, is a rare one.
35% : Penny Swan defected from the rightwing group that captured the local Republican party - and she won't be voting for TrumpWhile dozens of her neighbors piled into buses bound from Michigan for the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021, Penny Swan, a local Republican party activist and an outspoken Trump supporter, stayed home.
35% : And come November, she won't vote for Trump.
33% : In the wake of the 2020 election, the Republican party of Michigan - a swing state that flipped from Trump to Joe Biden in 2020 - saw a widening rift between the party's establishment and its fired-up Maga base.

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