“Today, we’re all MAGA | The Spectator” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/today-were-all-maga-trump-shooting-assassination/
Kate Andrews writes in the Spectator, that We Are All MAGA, or most of us should be because Donald Trump had his ear nicked by a Republican’s bullet.
She begins with a story of Reagan getting shot and how it allegedly united a nation. Therefore, we must all be MAGA.
"There is only one appropriate response to such horrors. Today, we are all MAGA. Or at least most of us are. American politics has sunk so low into the cesspit of political despair, there will be a rare few who can't bring themselves to say it...they won't hesitate to keep pouring petrol onto a nation already ablaze...If there is anything left tying America's national fabric together, it's that such instances of violence can't be tolerated."
"...Today, there is a moment for national unity. And perhaps a moment for change. Americans have become increasingly fearful of political violence - the kind that has played out across the country from the streets of Manhattan to Portland over the past few years...
..."There is going to be a lot of pressure now for Democrats to tone down their rhetoric about Trump as a "dictator," and "despot," the kind of words people use around the world to justify political uprisings. Critical questions put to Democrats about what kinds of outcomes they expect when they refer to the former president as an "existential threat" to the United States.
The notion that we must all unite behind a former president who had been nothing but divisive – who has said much worse about his political opponents – because a sniper took a pot shot at him, is absurd.
Yes, American politics has indeed “sunk so low into the cesspit of political despair,” but to suggest that Donald Trump is the hope and change we’ve all been waiting for, is even more absurd, and therefore we must all declare that we are MAGA to show solidarity and unity.
Nonsense . I reject that notion. I reject that notion for many reasons. MAGA is everything I despise. It is a movement based in racism, hatred, bigotry, and violence. This is not hyperbole. These are facts.
The MAGA Republican party’s stance on the border – the repetitive fear-mongering that there is an invasion on the southern border, that undocumented migrants are a threat to the American way of life and livelihood; the family separation policy; the Muslim ban; the overly exaggerated claims of migrant crime in inner cities that are allegedly ignored by the Democrats who run these cities. And every one of these exaggerated claims has been repeated time and again by his Congressional supporters, the media – Fox, Newsmax, NewsNation – and a former Republican president at all of his rallies, and during his RNC speech.
The MAGA anti-gay and anti-trans narrative – that they are groomers out to prey on children, by attempting to trans-sexualize them through indoctrination and alleged trans mutilation. This garbage is repeated and reinforced ad hominem as fact by conservative media outlets such as Fox News and NewsNation. And yet, the actual “grooming,” and sexual abuse that occurs on a daily basis, always turns out to be conservative christian youth pastors who all too often are MAGA supporters. Ironic. But, we’re told by the media that it’s drag queens that are a threat to America’s youth.
It is a movement that thrives on hatred, bigotry and violence. It is a movement that backed a president that failed to lead the nation during the pandemic, and as a result of that failure , thousands needlessly died because they believed the lies and propaganda about the vaccines. It is a movement that backed a president as he falsely claimed an election was stolen from him, that believed all of his lies and falsehoods, and we’re encouraged to riot at the Capitol. It is a movement that wanted to hang a vice president because he failed to follow Trump’s wishes. It is a movement that doesn’t care that he attempted to illegally replace state electors to influence the outcome in his favor. This alone should have disqualified his running for president again, let alone the fact that he’s a convicted felon.
Her claim that Americans are terrified of political violence – “the kind that has played out across the country from the streets of New York, to Portland” – are also absurd and misleading. The Summer protests of 2020 were mostly peaceful, and we’re in response to violence perpetrated by law enforcement over the unjust killing of George Floyd. She makes no mention of that fact, or of the fact that gun violence runs rampant on the streets of America because of one party’s failure to pass any decent legislation that might save the the life of innocent children. To her, peaceful protesters are the violent ones we should be afraid of.
Those who say that Trump is a threat to democracy, are not being hyperbolic or using violent rhetoric. They’re stating facts. He illegally tried to influence the outcome of an election that he lost, in his favor. He and his media and Congressional cronies and cohorts, willingly and knowingly participated in a coup, and many of his followers rioted in favor of that coup. These are known facts.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 lays the ground work for an authoritarian playbook of a conservative vision for the government. This should be enough to dissuade any decent human being from associating themselves with such a movement.
We are not all MAGA. No decent human being would align themselves with a movement that has no interest in unity – except in their hatred of liberals, progressives, gay and trans people.
If that’s pouring petrol on the fire, then so be it.
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