Columnist Schwab: When a bunny goes high, MAGA just goes lower
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
Without outrage, MAGAs have nothing. Without being offended, they’d be nothing.
If it wasn’t unmistakable before, the Super Bowl (Went, Seahawks!) removed any doubt. Donald Trump’s and MAGA’s anger over Bad Bunny’s halftime performance began long before it happened. Nothing, it seems, makes that crowd so infuriated as seeing people — especially those of darker hues — having fun. Exuberant fun. Occasionally sexy? For sure. But, even with some soft-boiled political Easter eggs (tinyurl.com/yolksonU), always celebratory. At the end, naming all countries in the Americas, as if we’re part of a whole, together. The actual not-fake wedding was sweet and hopeful. As was the omnipresent visual message, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” Only in Trump’s America could that be considered a subversive provocation.
So offended were MAGAs that they hied to a YouTube-only counterprogram featuring a badly lip-syncing, white-man-jumping, over-hilled Kid Rock, who’d once sung his way to fame lauding statutory rape. (Snopes: tinyurl.com/rock4girls) Maybe that explains his connection with Trump. There was also some guy who sang an anti-woke song. Good times. Wish I’d been there.
Sure, it’d have been nice to have had English subtitles for Mr. Bunny, but it was about vibe, not vocabulary. Besides, what language is required to recognize pure joy? Not the one MAGA speaks, evidently. It was a celebration of America’s unique melting pot that accounts for so much of its greatness. Which explains the freakout of Make America Ghastly Again. Having once designated liberals as “snowflakes,” under Trump they’ve taken ownership of the term. They NEED to be angry at not-like-thems. If it weren’t so pitiful and, for that matter, anti-America, it’d be hilarious. But, mostly, it’s just sad. Unlike Bad Bunny, MAGAs are unhappy people, preferring an even unhappier leader. Because it’s all they know how to do, if poorly, House Republicans are calling for an investigation (EW: tinyurl.com/2Bonbrand).
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