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Doug Israel's avatar

I believe Trump devotees are divided between genuine radicals who believe our political and social system needs to be fundamentally altered and conservatives who believe that to stop the leftist rampage equally radical tactics need to be employed. I don't think for a second Trump is a genuine radical nor do I think he believes most of his red meat rhetoric. I do believe he wants to stop the left which is basically synonymous with the elites at home and abroad. But I fear he is too disordered in his thinking to accomplish it. The administration may become a war between MAGA true believers and people like Marco Rubio. We will see.

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CjB's avatar

I enjoyed the article but I cannot agree with your characterization of MAGA as radical. The problem is that the radical liberals moved the needle so beyond any sense of normalcy that moving to normal appears radical. The elite academics and politicians corrupted most of our formerly esteemed institutions such that much of America is a mess.

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