QOTD: "deMAGAfication"

 

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman writes in his Substack about the need to "deMAGAfy" the U.S., much like the de-Nazification effort in Germany following WWII.  He concludes with this:

"Obviously, we need to defang Trump as much as possible and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next two elections. But beyond that, we really need to do a thorough purging of the United States. We need a deMAGAfication. And I’m not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the denazification that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.

And it’s not just the MAGA ideology, but the whole structure of hugely unequal power, hugely unequal wealth that made this horrific moment possible.

It’s not going to be easy, and maybe it’s not going to be doable, but we have to try because this is a nightmare. This is a nightmare beyond, I think, even the worst fantasies of progressives, beyond the worst fantasies of conservatives who still have a conscience. (There still are plenty of those, but they’re no longer MAGA.)

This has to be turned around and we should not, above all, whitewash or forget this moment. This is where a lot of forces in America have been leading and if we don’t do something beyond just getting rid of Trump, it’s going to happen again." (our emphasis)

We've called for this type of purging also.  The MAGA "movement" is a fascistic cult that, for now, is loyal primarily to the mentally ill Malignant Fascist, with many more pretenders to his MAGA throne.  In time, his oligarch supporters will choose, using their vast financial resources, a successor who will seek to impose their ideology on us and keep feeding the insatiable appetite of the Epstein class.