8/ rather than talent, achievement or education brings advancement.

This is why MAGA doesn’t just celebrate moronocracy, but actively requires it.

7/ Nothing you see from this administration is anything other than the implementation of this grand project. Every action fits with the neatest precision into this grand design. Rule by fiat; extirpate a meritorious liberal order; reinstate a renewed order of glorious inequality, where whiteness

6/ precisely this to the acclaim of dukes and dirt-farmers alike. He will build his Versailles and call it God’s work. Meanwhile, the middle class, the historical architects and beneficiaries of liberalism, must be strangled to insure liberalism’s death.

5/ natural inequality as god-ordained, replacing class with race as the defining category. As Trump pilfers, pillages, pockets his trinkets and hears how beautiful his imperial robes are, we should not flatter ourselves that this is inconsistent or hypocritical. Old monarchs and potentates did

4/ country. The rules were, play by the rules and you can join. And join they did - Black, brown, East Asian, South Asian.

Liberalism’s global ethos and global attraction has always been equality of opportunity. Fascism reasserts feudalism’s inherent inequality by working against merit & upholding

3/ every one of his successes shows them that whiteness wins over intelligence, over exertion, over perseverance.

The liberal order was founded by Europeans but its own rules allowed everyone to join - this is how we had people of African heritage at the pinnacle of military and government in this

2/ Moronocracy is also a vibe for his base. They adore him for it, because it reasserts the feudalistic supremacy of birth over merit. Except the birthright being protected is the new aristocracy of race, not the old aristocracy of title and acreage. MAGA will never stray from Trump, because each &

Kevin, I wanted your quote to be true!

No, it’s easier than that: he didn’t respond to Donnie’s usual demagogic tricks and that left Donnie fawning. It’s a clinic in interpersonal psychology.

Mamdani isn’t playing that game tho.

All amusing until you see this bastard’s take. Same leftist who thought Matt Gaetz was a good seed.

I mean the memes are fire.

They’re just another variety of missionary, asking themselves why the native doesn’t understand God’s love.

In this framing, not everyone who voted Trump is necessarily maga.

2/ because they’ve been awake to their motivations all along. It is we who must wake up from our dreams about their inner virtue or material self-interest. If there is anything they cry “I didn’t vote for this” about, it’s that the promised ethnic and gender cleansing isn’t happening quickly enough.