Alas, a typical FR response in 2022.
I would greatly prefer retaking the government and saving the nation by the voting process, for many reasons, but mainly because the miracle of 125 years of civil peace after the first civil war is unlikely to be repeated after #2.
But never mind about Hogan's waistline, or his words.
Look at the reality we face.
The second choice of the typical MAGA voter, after losing a primary, is "always vote for the GOP in the general". You can see this right here dozens of times a day, or more.
But there's a small problem with this.
The second choice of the GOPe voter, after losing a primary, is (almost) always the Democrat.
Except in a few areas of the country, this GOPe voter fraction is substantial, usually enough if they defect to the Democrat for the Democrat to win. This problem will never be resolved with GOPe and MAGA voters under the same roof.
IT'S NOT THE HOGANS - IT'S THE VOTERS.
To put a MAGA government in place through voting involves, first and foremost, the destruction of the GOP as presently constituted and its replacement by a counter-revolutionary party dedicated to overthrow of the ruling class/caste/system.
There are lots of Democrats who want nationalization of parts of the medical system. There are only a few thousand who want their children mutilated behind their backs by "woke" schoolteachers.
There are lots of Democrats who want a muscular state intervening in the economy to return manufacturing to our shores. There aren't many white ones who want their children's futures crushed by ongoing race discrimination carried out by armed Federal agencies.
There are lots of Democrats who want the Southern border closed to arrest the erosion in the wages of labor. There aren't many who want their sons sent overseas to be killed or injured protecting the borders of alien peoples.
And so on.
MAGA can't win the government without either all GOPe voters on board, OR with a political program that captures a very large fraction of Americans who now vote for the Democrat.
In my opinion, knowing GOPe voters as well as I do, the second is much more probable than the first.
It’s the Hogans.