I wish I could take credit for MAGA Party (in fact I like MAGA Coalition better, because that’s what it is).
Despite all the ups and downs and outrage we’ve all felt over the last 4 years, an incredible amount has been accomplished, mostly through the efforts of one man, President Trump. (With a little help from his friends, some of whom took their sweet time in becoming one, but who thankfully are friends now).
I said in 2016 Trump pulled off a hostile takeover of the GOP, and that’s really not such a bad analogy. I was part of a major corporate merger and was involved in buying and integrating two companies and the first thing everyone asks themself is “Am I in, or out?”. We know who those are who left (just look at Lincoln Project or National Review). Some (like Haley IMHO) decided they’d stay “in” but have the notion of becoming the boss themselves and changing things down the road. Those are the ones to watch out for, because at least with those who have left, we know where they stand.
Trump is creating a new “party” or “coalition” but what it really is is a new vision for America, a new “culture” in bizspeak. He paints a picture of America as he wants it to be and every person has to decide if they are in or out of that picture.
Some will say “I like the picture but don’t like the painter”. History has shown that quite a few of them will stay in, because they vote their pocketbooks and for what’s best for the future of their kids and grandkids. Only a certain kind of ideologue who is driven by hatred and selfishness will reject Trumps vision in favor of a socialist/marxist “utopia” they full well know has never worked anywhere on Earth, and it won’t work here either. But some are petty enough to be ruled by their dark emotions rather than what is good for the country.
But what has been erased is “R vs D”. Even the broader “Liberal vs Conservative” dichotomy is blurred because Trump is not a strict conservative (as defined by the old GOP at least) and Biden/Harris are so far left that lifelong democrats won’t even go there.
This is the transformation we are seeing unfold. A coalition of freedom-loving Americans who believe in traditional values, individual rights, law and order, and capitalism vs. the senile career political dotard who will say anything he’s told to say by those who are propping him up in hopes of seizing power again.
Great post, BB.
The fact that there is a MAGA movement becoming a MAGA Party is one of the most positive outcomes of all of this because, let’s face it, even though we’ve got some good people identified, we’re not going to find another Donald J. Trump-—as unique a Nation Builder as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
I agree with you about Haley. She is too close to the Bush machine, and probably thinks she can steer MAGA back into the globalist reservation.
Another “Permanent” innovation of our culture, besides the MAGA Party (and marginalization of the Pity Party) is Q.
I could see Q hanging around for a few decades at least.
Oh ... and I would be willing to bet we’ll have TRUMP TV — a whole network. Maybe Trump Enterprises will acquire OANN when he leaves office.