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I've been saying that the teabaggers are the last gasp of the Angry White Man and Donvict was their last bid to try to reverse several decades worth of progress.
So far, it hasn't worked out. They are still here, fucking shit up.
The teabaggers renamed themselves "maga". They used to be the Birchers way back.
The Angry White Man was the term in the 90s for the exact same type of people we see in the "brosphere" these days; many of which were not even born in the 90s...unfortunately, these types manage to clone more of themselves in younger generations.
I hope this time it turns out to be true. We shall see.
And before that, they were the Nazis. The point is, every era, going back to the beginnings of civilization, has this same demographic segment of Sociopathic lunatics who want to take over the world, and force everyone else to do their bidding.
A healthy society recognizes the serious dangers that those people pose, and never allow those people to gain too much power. But now and then, a society let's down their guard, and those people rise up and take power. They've had different names over the years - Confederates, Nazis, MAGA, etc., but they're all the same people. We just made the mistake of letting them off the leash.
We've seen what these people have done in the past, how much blood they're willing to shed to keep power, so we can predict what they'll do in the future. The worst of MAGA is still ahead of us, and it is going to get much uglier before it gets better. For one thing, he has no intention of leaving after 2028.