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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with a cult of personality is that it can't survive without the personality.  Trump isn't likely to be alive in another 10 years (at best).   Who is the heir apparent for MAGA after he's gone?   Will they turn to Don Jr. and continue to embrace crazy, or will some traditional Republican pick up the banner, and start to turn the party back toward normality?[/quote]

The problem with you - the problem most of you here have - is that you think Trump started the concept, the idea, of “MAGA”. That’s what you believe. That before Trump, it didn’t exist. And therefore after Trump, it won’t exist. You think the entire thing is just some marketing concept cooked up by one guy. And there’s no convincing you otherwise.

It’s a pointless waste of time to even attempt to explain to you why you’re wrong, because you’re not even equipped to understand it anyway. And frankly, letting you exist in your state of delusion is actually better anyway, because you focus all your energies on Trump instead of actually studying your opposition. So I’m content that you do that. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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