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The truth is that MAGA is a slogan open to the interpretation of each individual in regards to the era or time when they found America most ideal. Yes, to many racist, its about going back to a time where white people had more complete domination and control. Yes, for some its an era before the nation went off the gold standard and were a manufacturing powerhouse. Yes, for some its an era where the US standing in the world was that of the only economic power, after WWII.
The MAGA slogan is akin to an ink spot. What you see in the splatter represents what you want to see. There is no consensus and that is what makes it so powerful as each person embraces their fantasy. If it was DEFINED as an objective set of criteria.....then it would not be embraced as fully because those conditions might not necissarily be what many feel made America great to them in the past.
They yearn for a time when “those people knew their place.”
give us a break, most people alive today don't even know who we fought in ww2
the left comes up with off the wall obscurity and tries to paint Trump and his supporters as a vision of hell.
MAGA sounds great and is taken for face value. It wants the government corruption and career politicians on both sides of the aisle to do the job for which they were elected. To stop bleeding taxpayers with failed investments like Solyndra and then tell us it was a good investment.
Regulations suffocated the economy and the american dream was interrupted, maga!
MAGA refers to a time before Republican “free market” ideology destroyed the New Deal policies that made America work for everyone. MAGA is the belief that such New Deal policies were “socialism” and therefore evil.
Irony can be pretty ironic.
This is the only post that has even come close. It was the era of New Deal "social democrat" policies - high top tax rates funding significant investments in education, research, social welfare programs and infrastructure - that literally created the great American middle class and which powered widespread prosperity and innovation.
The Republican "greed is good" mantra and trickle-down voodoo economics accelerated off-shoring of manufacturing in search of ever decreasing costs with a focus on shareholder value instead of real value.
How about the time when we had politicians that respected our laws in particular our immigration laws just for starters.
The Progressives (Democrats) think Trump supporters are this small uneducated, hick minority somewhere out in the country in some run down farmette or trailer park. Or at least they WANT to think that to make themselves FEEL superior.
That's why the try to demonize them by using terms like "Trumpers". It just reinforces who they are.
Like most of what Trump says, "MAGA" is so amorphous and vague that anyone can believe that it comports with what they subjectively believe. It is the functional equivalent of promising everything to everyone but with the twist of being so unspecific that no matter what happens, Trump can actually claim that he did what he promised. Its a hollow, meaningless phrase that will only be believed by people willing to believe anything.
Imagine giving an architect your life savings to remodel your home based solely his or her promise that they will "make your house awesome again."
The Progressives (Democrats) think Trump supporters are this small uneducated, hick minority somewhere out in the country in some run down farmette or trailer park. Or at least they WANT to think that to make themselves FEEL superior.
That's why the try to demonize them by using terms like "Trumpers". It just reinforces who they are.
It's less that progressives feel superior to the "small uneducated hicks in some run down farmette or trailer park" and more that you feel inferior yourselves.
It's less that progressives feel superior to the "small uneducated hicks in some run down farmette or trailer park" and more that you feel inferior yourselves.
I don't feel inferior at all. I am well educated and live in a very affluent suburb. Why would I feel inferior?
I'd say America was only "great" from 1779 to 1789, and has been on the road to tyranny ever since.
So if I am taking Trump at his word, I'd prefer an Articles of Confederation, no central government, just kicked a tyrant's arse back across the Atlantic and feeling feisty about liberty (which in the modern case would be DC has been overrun with torches and pitchforks), and anyone even suggesting powerful government was treated with serious derision and opposition.
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Typical liberal attacks.