With MAGA, there is no intellectual connection to traditional conservatism. Think Tacitus, Hobbes, Edmund Burke, their ideas of conserving social and economic norms to avoid chaos and social disorder are completely disconnected from MAGA. Instead, MAGA is a radical movement that seeks total cultural revolution and uses chaos and disorder to achieve it. Trump is Maoist in that he uses the tactics of Mao’s cultural revolution to retain power and destroy the old social and political order.
With MAGA, there is no intellectual connection to traditional conservatism.
It’s not like the typical Republican voter has ever cared about that. I doubt many of the party leadership could even name most of their supposed intellectuals. They are probably more likely to cite Limbaugh.
With MAGA, there is no intellectual connection to traditional conservatism. Think Tacitus, Hobbes, Edmund Burke, their ideas of conserving social and economic norms to avoid chaos and social disorder are completely disconnected from MAGA. Instead, MAGA is a radical movement that seeks total cultural revolution and uses chaos and disorder to achieve it. Trump is Maoist in that he uses the tactics of Mao’s cultural revolution to retain power and destroy the old social and political order.
It’s not like the typical Republican voter has ever cared about that. I doubt many of the party leadership could even name most of their supposed intellectuals. They are probably more likely to cite Limbaugh.