Fascinating read from Janan. What percentage of MAGA views Russia as 'Christendom's frontline'?
The following made me chuckle:
It was always an odd fit: the libertine and the scolds of ultraconservatism. Trump doesn’t share the movement’s interest in the fate of “western civilisation” and other grandiose abstractions. He is not much of a China hawk: his concern is the bilateral trade data, not the grand strategy, much less the contest of values. As for religion, we can’t know another person’s inner life, but come on.
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This isn’t the first split. There have been several other cracks such as “The courts are too slow. I say we take the guns first” incident after the Las Vegas shooting and the fact that project warpspeed gave us the first COVID vaccines that he was proud of.
The MAGA scene significantly underperforms when Trump is not on the ballot. They need him more than he needs them.
I shall get some popcorn going
Just like how the GOP of Bush isnt MAGA, its like a succession of sith being murdered by their apprentice but without a sense of self awareness, because all of them seem to fail to appreciate how relying on and actively stoking fanaticism and conspiracism is riding the tiger at best