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Trump’s Fascist Moment Will Fail Because It Lacks a Discernible Symbol
For marketing purposes, the swastika was a genius symbol. MAGA has nothing but stupid-looking hats.
Joe Biden’s campaign made clear yesterday in Seattle: Donald Trump has snapped and is even worse than before. As Trump’s rallying cries from past campaigns either eventually go bad like cheap cheese forgotten in the back of the refrigerator or his own actions make the slogans potentially too risky for him (lock her up), the cultists now scream nothing more emotion-rattling than “Trump, Trump, Trump.”
It’s all about him now. He has no new provocative lies where he promises to MAGA. His “save America” cry never really caught on, kind of the way New Coke never pushed aside old Coke. In the world of the Trumpian cult, MAGA is still as good as it gets, and even pushing that too far is dangerous. All it takes is 10 percent of the cultists expressing doubt in Trump to contrast and compare the two presidencies. Trump did a lot to make the America of the super-rich great, but next to nothing for Main Street. Biden’s presidency has made America great again in many respects, and this is something many will hopefully begin to notice.
If there was a chance that some journalist on the right was being honest, then we could…
