What happens to MAGA after Trump?
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Anonymous
They aren't that bright. Never forget it. |
Anonymous
+1. It's amazing to me how naive I was. |
Anonymous
This is the conclusion I’ve come to after spending way more time than I should have watching the way people here lay it out. The hyper focus on MAGA is a distraction and a non-entity to just project anger, bitterness and confusion on anything from Covid to the climate. The left has left the building. So many have gone moderate or right leaning. And this is not from anonymous message boards but from going out, talking to real people from various places in the country. |
Anonymous
| Read the book “How Democracies Die”. What we’ve been watching play out is a playbook long in the works and far bigger than Trump. |
Anonymous
That’s what people wanted to believe. The seeds of what we call “maga” were planted long ago. Some of us tried to point out what the Republican Party was but people liked the comforting belief that the Republican Party stood for tradition, honor, decency, etc and that they did so in opposition to the childish freaks in the Democratic Party. But the hatred of women, the dehumanization of Black people and minorities was already there. The lust for power and money was there, too. And bit by bit the mask slipped but people still pretended that Newt Gingrich and men like him were an aberration. And now here we are. That’s the GOP. The media, complicit in this lie, still like to act like the Republican Party is a regular party. They’re not. It’s time to stop pretending. Look at the jamoke on this thread who is still trying to pretend there’s honor in maga! |
Anonymous
After the civil rights bill was pass and Black people has the same access to public spaces as whites, white all across America drained their public pools and filled with cement. They would rather go without joy than to share with Black people. None of this is new. These people have always existed. We thought we were evolving with Obama but the racism (I would argue caste) never left and Trump was one of the worst with birtherism. |
Anonymous
Prior to Trump we had the screeching "Tea Party" idiots. NORMAL conservatives ignored them and kept them in check. But then the Koch brothers and others started pumping money into orgs like FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express which began elevating the Tea Party crazies and getting them elected. And that weakened the GOP and made them start having to kowtow to the Tea Party. But meanwhile, the Kochs and others lost control of the Tea Party frankenstein monster that they created and it began rampaging unchecked. Trump tapped into that, and that is how we got MAGA. And the MAGA distortions, conspiracy theories, disinfo and everything else only continue to be amplified while "normal" Republicans sit by silently and spinelessly. The GOP is such a disgrace anymore. Makes me sad to think back to when I was still registered as a Republican. |
Anonymous
+1. He just exploits ugly racist fears that are already there forever. MAGA will just find another after we are rid of this one. |
Anonymous
| They go back to their white hoods and confederate flags (that aren't even confederate flags but rather Jim Crow era dog whistle flags) |
Anonymous
+1, Hilary was right. They really were and are deplorable. Sadly, I think there's a not insignificant portion of most societies that this represents. |
Anonymous
Or "A Christian Nation" |