by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I continue to dwell on the possibility that MAGA might, just might, not be the overarching popular fascist movement that I thought it was. Or, if nothing else, the context is a lot different than I thought.
What I mean is — not only was it something of a fluke that Trump won in 2016, but once he gave Republicans the red met of young hack MAGA judges and a plutocrat tax cut…the clock was ticking. So, when Trump, being a lazy dingus totally and completely blew what should have been an easy re-election bid to steal…he was on his way to broader defeat.
I’m not prepared to count Trump out just yet — he is still very, very popular for a would-be fascist autocrat relative to general American history. And, yet, the case could be made that if he has any political relevance left he’s going to have to fight for it. And, as we all know, Trump is both lazy and stupid. AND lacks any serious meta-abstract cognitive abilities.
He is, and has always been just a political grunt in macro terms. Rather than being a Great Man, Trump is just a vessel, an avatar for white Christian rage. If he wants to be POTUS again, he’s going to have to fight for it. If he had any abstract cognitive abilities he would realize that his best bet to be POTUS again is by becoming Speaker of the House and then impeaching both Biden and Harris…and maybe dangling the idea of Reds seceding from the Union over the heads of Senators.
But that’s a very devious and dialogical plot that, thankfully, Trump is just way, way, way too stupid and lazy to implement. At best, he might be drafted into being Speaker…but he would just thrash around, get Biden and Harris impeached….and that would be that…it would die in the Senate.
As such, there’s a real that Trump might — just might — be about to meet his political Waterloo. Someone like Ron “Too Short” DeSantis might win the GQP nomination instead of Trump — but that would be a very brutal fight if it happened. And, what’s more, Trump has such little allegience to Republicans that it’s very easy to imagine him simply bouncing to the Patriot Party out of spite…punting America’s otherwise inevitable transition into autocracy one more election cycle.
