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\u201cIt\u2019s not so much that they love Donald Trump, but they don\u2019t mind a healthy dose of Trumpism,\u201d Morgan explains. \u201cIt particularly breaks down on the woke stuff. They may not be natural conservatives on conservative issues like guns or abortion or things like that, but they are very much with the conservative right on all the woke insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot of people who felt uncomfortable having to walk on eggshells everywhere they went,\u201d says CJ Pearson, a prominent conservative activist and Trump campaign adviser who lived in Los Angeles during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
The rise of the Make America Healthy Again movement spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2014who, before morphing himself into a Trump booster, was a Brentwood-dwelling Democrat\u2014also played a role: \u201cWhen you think about where the seeds of MAHA were planted, it was in Los Angeles,\u201d Pearson says. \u201cThis is the home of Erewhon and no seed oils\u2014before that was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pratt followed a similar arc to many of those seduced by the MAHA movement. He says he was apolitical for most of his life but was radicalized in the wake of the Palisades wildfires that destroyed the home he shared with his wife, Heidi Montag, and their two children. He started to speak out relentlessly on social media against Democrats like Bass and California governor Gavin Newsom, whom he blamed for the devastation of the fires.<\/p>\n Trump with Jon Voight, one of his most loyal Hollywood supporters.<\/p>\n <\/span>MANDEL NGAN\/Getty Images.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The Celebrity Big Brother UK<\/em> alum is cautious about expressing support for Trump, and Bass has used past statements that he would work with the president against him. When I prod for his views on the president, he\u2019s reluctant. To a point.<\/p>\n \u201cWith Iran,\u201d Pratt says, \u201cPersian ladies pulled up on me and they said, \u2018We love you so much. Thank you for supporting us.\u2019\u201d The war, he says, \u201cdefinitely helped my situation in LA,\u201d because \u201ceveryone I\u2019ve known has hated this Allah-toya [sic], whatever the fuck, all these years, so no spilled milk here. So yes, if we\u2019re going to go have a war, that definitely helped just get me elected, because Karen Bass was over here acting like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m so sorry we did this,\u2019 where the real ones in LA are like, \u2018Thank God.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n