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Source:Rebel HQ with a look at U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (MAGA, Georgia) & Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (MAGA, Louisiana) perhaps you can tell for yourself who is who. |
From Rebel HQ
So I think Ben Gleib made the key point here when he said:
"The Republican party is of course these days built around Trump's personality. It is a cult of personality and also a cult cult regular style But it's not a real platform."
I mean that's my main point about Donald Trump and his MAGA political cult. This is not a political ideological movement. And it's sure as hell not a conservative movement built around conservative values like:
tradition,
U.S. Constitution
rule of law
fiscal responsibility
individual rights
limited government
federalism
personal responsibility
innovation, etc...
All the conservative values that made the Republican Party a governing party again in the 1970s and 80s. If MAGA believes in conserving anything, it's small town, blue-collar, Anglo-Saxon and perhaps other Northern European cultures. But their movement is not a political ideological movement. They're not interested in conserving the:
U.S. Constitution (their Dear Leader on Sunday said he doesn't know if he's supposed to defend the Constitution or not)
MAGA is not interested in the rule of law, especially when it gets in their way or is imposed on 1 of their own members.
Fiscal responsibility? Remember, deficits and debt doesn't matter... when there's a Republican President and Congress.
Individual rights? Only for the "real Americans".
Limited government? It's not big government when MAGA does it.
Federalism? That only applies to the states and localities who govern the way MAGA wants them too.
Personal responsibility? Well, again according to their Dear Leader, everything that goes well, he should get credit for it. But it's always someone else's fault.
Innovation? Just as long as MAGA likes the politics and culture of the innovators and those products are made in America.
I think the main problem that Donald Trump and MAGA has, is that they only won the 2024 General Elections with 49% of the presidential vote, 220-435 House seats and only have 53-100 Senate seats. And yes, that means there's a "Republican" President and Congress. But barely.
And when you don't have a mandate to govern on your own and you dear leader is less popular now than even when he was in November, (44% approval according to FOX News) and on top of that your own movement doesn't seem to have any governing philosophy that lays out what you should be doing when you are in power, and the opposition party is 100% united against you and has the troops in Congress to speak out against you and even obstruct you in Congress, you become a governing party with nothing to govern... or nothing to govern with.
You can't govern a country with around 40% of the American public behind you. Your own members either get in your way, or you end up getting blown out in the mid-terms, or both at the same time. Which seems to be what's happening with the "Republican Party" right now.
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