“The first casualty of war is the truth” - Aeschylus, Greek dramatist. In America, Trump and MAGA have slaughtered the truth for nine years. Maybe that’s a clue…maybe Trump and MAGA are waging war.
Trump’s war is probably just vengeance, vengeance for being slighted, for not being accepted as a New York elite real estate Barron. Indeed, he used to call news organizations and give them Trump propaganda pretending to be a man named John Barron. Maybe a clue.
I think some of MAGA’s war is, in part, the same - people feel slighted, ignored, disrespected. So they want vengeance - just burn it all down, destroy the elites who look down on them.
But, I think the main MAGA warriors are theocrats, White Christian Nationalists, National Apostolic Reformists, white supremacist extremists sworn to destroy secular America and replace it with a Christian version of the Islamic Taliban. They are at war against what they have been indoctrinated to believe is “Satan” - you know, gays, people of color becoming equals, women becoming powerful, empathy, compassion, Democrats, every bit of human progress in the last hundred years.
I think liberals want to pretend this is a political contest rather than a war being waged against democracy and the rule of law and the American Constitution itself.
Sigh.
