Across the coalition, some supporters who once viewed Trump as MAGA’s greatest asset are beginning to question whether he’s become its biggest liability.
The midterm losses amounted to more than a repudiation of Trump. They were a referendum on the political and cultural movement he built. A defining force in American politics that began as a campaign slogan during Trump’s 2016 presidential run now faces a potentially existential reckoning after voters disillusioned with soaring fuel prices, the Iran war and Washington corruption delivered Democrats decisive congressional majorities.
Someone should really define what “maga” even is.
So far, it is a word that sounds much like a baby-word (“maga” sounds like “googoo” and “gaagaa”) and the movement seems to embody a set of people that adore a big-mouthed failson who was given a game show that gave gullible people the impression he’s a bigly important businessman.
If you take donnie out of the equation, what do they even stand for? Racism, xenophobia, misogyny? Putting xtians on a pedestal and giving them special privileges? Sure. But that’s pretty much the core of conservatism and always has been.
While we’re at it, can they define “antifa”?
I really want to watch as the cobwebs fall off the cogs.
Cult of personality. Once that personality is gone, so will be MAGA.
Soaking of definitions: “conservatism”, what is it? Do we have a definition that conservatives agree with?
Right now there is no meaningful distinction between conservatism and MAGA as far as US politics goes.