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[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

You’re talking as if MAGA will just disappear the moment Trump gets ousted. It won’t.

MAGA makes up the majority of the Republican party. And their criticism of Trump is not about democratic decline, rampant corruption or ICE, but about inflation, Iran and the general consensus that Trump is not being true to his word.

Far right influences have been steadily gaining ground within the Republican party for over two decades. And by this point the leading ideology within the party is anti-democratic, anti-free speech, racist and imperialist. There are no moderate Republicans just waiting backstage to steer their party back to the way it was.

Instead we have a whole cadre of ideologically motivated crazies who are more than able to carry the project further after Trump is finally ousted.

[-] bashibazouk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

What do mean by majority? 51% is a hell of a lot different than 80%. I think much of MAGA is more populist than ideological. Some will disappear, some will follow the next populist to come a long and that populist could have different ideas that they latch on to. Compare the "tea party" of Ron Paul to the co-opted Tea Party that came later...

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