US Political News and Views

[Meengla]

Republicans are cooked through the 2032 election cycle. If they want to revive themselves, then become a party of economic reforms, of 'America First', of no illegals tolerated, of no foreign wars, of no Vote Bank politics to appease the freeloaders. They have an even larger voter bank than the Democrats if they choose a wise course of action. Only if they do... The pendulum swings in America; sometime takes some years but it has been swinging.

 

[KingQamaR]

MAGA was mostly a race-based movement: White Americans in a siege mentality. I am not unsympathetic to them because every ethnic group would feel the squeeze as the demographic around them changes. But Trump did a marvelous job in 2024 to make the political tent larger and thus so many Blacks, Muslims, Latinos voted for him. Of course Trump had no intention of catering to those groups' needs and he didn't--on the contrary. He conned them and they realized and voted against him in 2026.

In a way you are not wrong about MAGA: It is going to live on without Trump because MAGA's roots are race based. I am surrounded by them through relations and friendships and there are many of them. But it will be a greatly diminished force--never attaining the power and the acceptance like in 2024. Trump squandered a historic opportunity. The guy is so callous, so nonchallant that on the eve of the Midterms elections, he was crowing about some Reflection pond or something; talk about Nero playing flute while Rome burnt!

PS. What every non-white resident in America should fear is the rise of violent ethnic backlash in a country where the gun culture is rampant.

The people who make up MAGA are still going to be around. They will still be believing everything Trump has said and will say in the next two years and beyound

What’s so sad. Never in the history of the human race has so much information been readily available yet so many people in United States remain steadfastly ignorant. .

 

[Meengla]

The people who make up MAGA are still going to be around. They will still be believing everything Trump has said and will say in the next two years and beyound
What’s so sad. Never in the history of the human race has so much information been readily available yet so many people in United States remain steadfastly ignorant. .

The spirit of MAGA is not going away because, IMO, it was an ethnic/race based movement.
As to people voting against their interests--I personally know a few: They may lose the Affordable Care Act subsidies, and thus have no health insurance anymore but they were conned into hating the Democrats to the point of voting against their own interests.