"... One can retain whatever sympathy one wants for the ordinary folks who were snookered by Trump or, for whatever reasons, believe something had to be done to arrest what they viewed as America’s decline.
"But
no such nuance or too-clever-by-half analysis of the motives and goals
of this president, his administration nor the current Trump-abetting,
MAGAfied GOP is necessary, nor helpful. Make America Great Again is best
understood as a punchline, a sick inside joke among Trumpworld elites,
who callously and often seemingly gleefully preside over worsening
conditions of life for ordinary Americans, while stuffing their own bank
accounts, nursing their preferred grievances and sabotaging the
institutions that might at least give us a fighting chance to have a
better future. It’s not America First. It’s a particularly deranged and
vicious version of me first, America and its people be damned." -- Jonathan Weiler concluding his essay, "The Ultimate Irony of MAGA." In the intervening ten-years-plus since the Malignant Fascist descended his "gold"-trimmed escalator, anyone who believes in the clownish demagogue deserves no sympathy at all, because they haven't been "snookered;" they're with him for the reasons that make him so odious and dangerous to the rest of us. That aside, it's of course deeply ironic that the MF's "brand" is "Make America Great Again," given the reality of his path of destruction though our Constitution, rule of law, basic norms, and world standing, all the while enriching himself, his corrupt family, and his Epstein class cronies.
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