What's the deal with this Walkaway hashtag guy?

[Roland99]

Claims to have been a liberal but tired of liberal hatred and intolerance.

Sounds like a James OKeefe to me.

[0rganism]

1. they promise us safe passage in the wasteland - what a deal!

[lagomorph777]

2. That's been identified as a Russian troll theme, complete with bots.

Here is RT promoting it:
https://www.rt.com/usa/431666-walkaway-democrats-straka-campaign-gay/

[WhiteTara]

3. russian troll bot.nt

[ck4829]

4. "I was a liberal Democrat who saw liberal Democrats being fighters so I became right wing...

Also, do not ask me why there is no #WalkAway from Roy Moore voters or ‘very fine people’ you stupid libtard”

- #WalkAway in a nutshell

I’ve also seen a tweet by someone who said they analyzed a lot of the tweets by people saying these things, in nearly all cases, he couldn’t find when they were actually liberal.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Nobody Becomes Less Liberal. . .

. . .because of things other liberals say, absent a head injury.

They were either always conservative and they're lying, or they had a personal trauma that changed their world view.

With this guy, i'm going with "A".

[ADX]

5. If you spend just 5 minutes on that Twitter feed...

...you can easily tell that it's straight-up, false-flag bullshit...

[Jake Stern]

7. Says "I'm not a conservative. I'm just tired of the incivililty of the Left!!"

Signs their tweet with the hashtag #MAGA.

How does the Onion stay in business with reality like this?

[Leghorn21]

8. "Walkaway" is 100% bogus, Roland

This link shows what bots are doing what, in real time...I don’t know much about all this deza/active measures stuff, but this “walkaway” one, at least, was called out shortly after it appeared:

https://botsentinel.com/tweet-archive/hashtag/WalkAway?p=2

[Iliyah]

9. The closer it gets to the midterm 2018

more articles and Russian/conservative trolls will put forth that the Democratic Party is in DISRRAY.

[LonePirate]

10. Almost all of them are bogus Russian sock puppet accounts. More social media propaganda.

[blogslut]

11. Here you go

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210830754

[Roland99]

12. Thanks everyone

I've had two people post that hashtag on fb comments to me. Don't really use Twitter so wasn't aware how organized the trolling was but it sounded too polished to be the grassroots claimed to be!

[Tarc]

13. It's a fake assclown propped up by twitter bots

Pro-Trump & Russian-Linked Twitter Accounts Are Posing As Ex-Democrats In New Astroturfed Movement

and

Right-wing Twitter goes ape for #WalkAway bots