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MAGA vs America
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/maga-vs-americaMAGA vs America by STEVE SCHMIDT JUN 19 2024
Consideration should be given to the possibility that Trump as a historical figure is just getting started. He is very much a figure of the future — at age 79. Imagine, it is entirely possible the epic damage he has already done will be nothing but a footnote or a short preface towards the main story not yet written, but coming down the tracks like a freight train.
It is important to imagine the moment at which Donald Trump takes power and becomes president again, amidst the devotional clapping of his MAGA politburo, which consists of a collection of misfits, losers, scammers, thieves, rapists, wife beaters, felons and conspiracy loons, welded together in an iron bond of cynicism and ambition for control, revenge and power. It will be a moment of profound and epic loss, a harbinger of terrible malice and a betrayal of every ideal and idea upon which the country was founded and forged.
Donald Trump is a fascist. His MAGA movement is un-American, unrelenting and unforgiving. It has become detached from Americanism, and attached to Trumpism, which is a most oppositional creed.
There are several questions ahead:
Will it be stopped?
Will Trump be stopped, or will he win?
If he wins, what will happen?
What does revenge look like?
Who is on the enemies list?
The election ahead will test what it means to be an American. It will test our faith in an enduring project that has reached many twilights after long hopeless days.
The choice in the election isn’t Biden vs. Trump. It is MAGA vs. America.
Sides must be picked.
Indifference is a side. So is hate.
It is important to imagine the moment at which Donald Trump takes power and becomes president again, amidst the devotional clapping of his MAGA politburo, which consists of a collection of misfits, losers, scammers, thieves, rapists, wife beaters, felons and conspiracy loons, welded together in an iron bond of cynicism and ambition for control, revenge and power. It will be a moment of profound and epic loss, a harbinger of terrible malice and a betrayal of every ideal and idea upon which the country was founded and forged.
Donald Trump is a fascist. His MAGA movement is un-American, unrelenting and unforgiving. It has become detached from Americanism, and attached to Trumpism, which is a most oppositional creed.
There are several questions ahead:
Will it be stopped?
Will Trump be stopped, or will he win?
If he wins, what will happen?
What does revenge look like?
Who is on the enemies list?
The election ahead will test what it means to be an American. It will test our faith in an enduring project that has reached many twilights after long hopeless days.
The choice in the election isn’t Biden vs. Trump. It is MAGA vs. America.
Sides must be picked.
Indifference is a side. So is hate.