This is exactly right.
"We get to do as we please, we get to dominate, and we are owed deference at all times" is the animating sentiment and promise of MAGA as a political project.
All based on some idea of what "real America" is and who gets to define it, who belongs, who gets to be at the top.
"We get to do as we please, we get to dominate, and we are owed deference at all times" is the animating sentiment and promise of MAGA as a political project.
All based on some idea of what "real America" is and who gets to define it, who belongs, who gets to be at the top.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
i mean this isn't peripheral to maga, this is core to it--the expectation not just that they'll get power and impunity, but that at long last we will *like and respect them*. they want to spit in our faces and us to thank them for the water. and they're constantly baffled when it doesn't work
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But now you're screwed. Your life expectancy is 9 years less than a college-educated guy's. Etc. See below.
Trump (falsely) promised them a return from being screwed to having status
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-elites-working-class.html
Start a street fight, and expect no one to respond.
Found it apt.
Not only is it permissible for men to use violence and aggression to command deference; they are virtuous for doing so.
"What will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery [Trump-crap] wrong, & join them in calling it right. & this must be done thoroughly, done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated: we must place ourselves avowedly with them."