(12-15-2023, 05:56 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(12-15-2023, 11:39 AM)mikesez Wrote: You fail to appreciate that while "MAGA" includes many trains of thought and possible courses of action, it has now become a cult of personality.  If Trump is gone, his acolytes will emphasize different things and start fighting each other for dominance.  It seems unlikely that any one of them will be able to reassemble the cult of personality that held it together.

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As respectfully as possible, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Trump is a personality, but the movement was growing way before Trump. There is reason the establishment is trying to bury the movement, which includes not just political persecution of Trump and his followers, but censorship and othering. I was just listening to all Al Gore speak today about the importance of people getting their news via msm. Haley wants to remove anonymity. It's about control of the narrative first and foremost, and that's not just because of Trump.

You're right.  Pat Buchanan is basically an earlier prototype of Trump. Then Newt Gingrich. Then Rick Scott.  The political right has had a hunger to push boundaries and reject secular systems of thought for a very long time.  It used to be within the bounds of western christianity.  Now it's unbounded.  So more than ever it needs a strong personality to hold it together.

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