MAGA-Trump Movement 2021 And Beyond

[anthony]

On 12/7/2024 at 2:47 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Integrity?

What integrity?

Here is a take on the MAGA character that is not talked about enough.

Ditto for Trump and his insiders. And ditto for the huge majority of MAGA people.

They do not seek power in order to rule over others. When power is needed for system hierarchy, they obtain it and use it to produce good and beautiful things. 

People who seek power (and money) as an end itself do not have a clue about how MAGA people think and believe.

They have an inner name for MAGA people: suckers. But they also fear this kind of sucker as the biggest threat to their own existence.

I am proud to be MAGA. And have been since the beginning.

 

Michael

What those critics inside Objectivism are missing  -  the full picture. They observe a superficial authoritarian "image" produced by media, and helpfully promoted by Trump himself, btw, and run with that surface image. (Mixing up the distinct fields, aesthetics and politics, one might imagine). One has to also distinguish personality from character. And motives from methods.

His support understands "Trump authoritarianism" has one purpose, handing proper authority back to them, the people. i.e. it is essentially ANTI-authoritarian.  In short, getting government out of their way.

What President Trump knows better he's up against this time: he needs to bully the bullies out of office (- and power) - not to mention taming the bully-enemies outside.

It seemed to me puzzling 8 years ago that Trump clearly set himself up to be the single target of the vicious attacks - exposing the rot (in e.g the media), while protective of the American people, I later understood.

(How does that ideal of "a limited gvt." even begin to take root, I guess O'ists do consider? Why and how would any entrenched, massive and self-serving bureaucracy 'commit suicide', so to speak? By a single decree? By this philosophy soon coming into wide acceptance? Doubtful. Or by a president with vision, and others after, gradually (and otherwise) using their power and authority to dissolve the Big State, with most citizens fully behind this drive to self-sovereignty/responsibility, and any others will have to get used to it. This, by far the most realistic route.

The first moves will be called "dictatorial" - to the minor despots in Gvt. and academia who are running scared right now. He's hated since he's not ~their~ "dictator".

Michael: Big businessmen over here and quietly everywhere, I'm hearing, are ecstatic at the direction change in the US.