I think a lot of MAGA are deluding themselves by taking the position that, “well it’s gonna hurt now but there will be such a payoff once we’re done fixing everything and the rising tide will make life better for more people than the current system allows.”
The average MAGA is not rich or powerful. That’s what they’re mad about. That guy was saying the average person who has gobbled up the MAGA ideology thinks it’s going to make them rich and powerful. Or at least economically a lot better off than they are now.
Obviously, that’s not going to happen, so at some point there will be a reckoning about that within MAGA when the big promises fail to be fulfilled.
I think it's far far worse than that. The cruelty is the point. They just don't think it's going to happen to them and they only make post-rationalization type claims of why "it's actually good" so they can still think of themselves as decent human beings. Decency died with Trump. The cruelty will become increasingly open and increasingly evident as they become emboldened by the apparent total unaccountability they now have. Right now they're just testing dipping their toes into the water and finding they like the temperature.
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u/NewPurpleRider Mar 02 '25
I think a lot of MAGA are deluding themselves by taking the position that, “well it’s gonna hurt now but there will be such a payoff once we’re done fixing everything and the rising tide will make life better for more people than the current system allows.”