Life after Maga: the group offering an ‘exit ramp’ for rightwingers questioning Trumpism

The non-profit Leaving Maga is built on the premise that abandoning the Trump-built movement is like fighting a disease or breaking an addiction Stephania Messina kept birthing boys.

In the Quiverfull conservative Christian church she belonged to outside Detroit, Michigan, that made her a community celebrity.

Your quiver, as the church taught it, is your womb, meant to be filled with as many arrows – a metaphor for children – as you can shoot unto the Lord.

She shot five.

“They treated me like I was Mother Mary, like I was this gift to the church,” she said.

But while she was quickly pushed into leading worship and Bible study groups for women and children, she wasn’t permitted to talk about politics.

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