The MAGA cult explained

Literally every thread here during the Obama years was conservative posters disagreeing with Obama and also posting "but I guess that makes me racist." I think conservatives basically invented this idea and were the main ones calling themselves racist lol.

 

The rural part is weird. They would seem to benefit from liberal policies.

The frustrating thing to me as a conservative, is how the Urban republicans seem to gravitate to him. Its a very strong (misleading) message they have been sold. They have been convinced to vote policy over decency.

I know amazing people who loathe Trump, but will still vote for him because he is a conservative.

Heck, I was once one of them.

 

I don't recall that many calling themselves racist. I do recall though that if you disagreed with Obama, your intentions for disagreeing were generally called into question.

 

It was a common rhetorical posture with some on here. To me it was almost like people saying "no offense, but." It reveals more about the person than anything, if you feel the need to say stuff like "I guess that makes me racist." You either have no good faith to begin with having a policy argument here or you are confessing something in a Freudian way.

 

I think the number of times people here complained about always being called racist far outnumbered the actual times it happened. The board was majority conservative and the criticism of Obama was constant. Death panels! Martial law! Brown shirts! Ceding sovereignty to the UN! Gun confiscation! He’s a Muslim! He’s not an American!

 

Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the number of times someone argued that the individual mandate was bad policy and was greeted with "I guess you hate blacks" was near 0. Did people question why conservatives got mad when Obama weighed in on Trayvon Martin? Of course.

 

Jonathan Last making sense about MAGA

 

As is Karen Attiah

 

Different memories from different prospectives. The main thing I am refuting is though that the rise of "racism" is not to be blamed all on Trump as stated earlier. And I firmly believe the term has been used so loosely in the recent past that it just doesn't carry the weight it used to or as it should may be better way to say that.

 

Bingo. MAGA uses cultural issues to cause rage and fear against liberals and “elites” so that policy issues that are proposed by Dems that would actually help rural communities are opposed. It wasn’t Hollywood that dumped oceans of opioids into W.Va, nor college professors who underfunded rural hospitals and declined Medicaid Extension that would have provided much needed health care to the rural poor, and it wasn’t those city folk who let rural roads rot nor drag queens who cut funding for rural schools resulting in poor performance and school consolidations. And it wasn’t the LGBQTs who aided agribusiness to drive out small family farmers.
I see most of these symptoms in my very rural, very MAGA area.

 

It’s a weird mix between the super rich, the fundamentalist Christians and the racist people who see the world changing and don’t like it.

 

Explain this:

US Navy Veteran Who Feds Say Rammed FBI Headquarters Had QAnon-Linked Online Presence

A former Navy submarine technician was arrested after law enforcement says he drove an SUV into the FBI headquarters near Atlanta on Monday afternoon. It is still unclear why the suspect, Ervin Lee Bolling, attempted to force entry into the headquarters, but research conducted by the nonpartisan public-interest nonprofit Advance Democracy and shared exclusively with WIRED has found that accounts believed to be associated with Bolling shared numerous conspiracy theories on social media platforms, including X and Facebook.

Around the same time, social media accounts seemingly associated with Bolling repeatedly boosted QAnon content and interacted with QAnon promoters, including by posting a link to a now-deleted QAnon-associated YouTube channel alongside the comment: “Release the Kraken”—in direct reference to Sidney Powell’s failed legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

On what’s believed to be Bolling’s Facebook account, there were various posts related to anti-vaccine memes as well.

The accounts also posted in support of former president Donald Trump. In December 2020, “I love you” was posted in response to a post on X from Trump that falsely claimed the election had been rigged by Democrats.

 

I bet I didn't post in THFSG but 3 or 4 times before Trump got into politics. Most of my activity was confined to the Pub. When Trump first announced he was running I didn't care for him. It was all the accusations and yes FAKE news that surfaced from the liberal press that turned me into a Trump backer combined with I tended to like his politics, still didn't like his personality. I do give him a pass on a lot of the personality flaws because he has been on the defensive since day 1. Every time an accusation is thrown his way it is taken as gospel by the left and the media and he is forced to defend himself. Even things that he could possibly be guilty of are often overlooked when it is someone else involved but not him. If someone sitting next to him farts at the dinner table within minutes it is blamed on him and posted all over CNN, MSNBC the NYT and someone starts a thread on THFSG. Enough said!

 

So tell us, was it his health care plan, the tariffs, the extra few miles of border wall, the Covid disinformation, the firings of multiple inspectors general.... what was his politics that you liked?

 

Poor picked on snowflake Trump. All of the dozens and dozens of awful things he has done are all fake.

 

Agreed... they voted for a man incapable of NOT $h!tting in his pants in public.

 

“I think one of the best names is — you know, I've really started this whole 'fake news' thing.” DJT

Per OP title, it’s fascinating how maga emulate what trump tells them.

 

He just told you. The liberal press doesnt like him or his antics and that is good enough to be ok in his book.

 

Before my time. Who chased them off or was it just a case of them being spineless snowflakes?

 

This is what I just don't get. What conservative policies?