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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maga-movement/ America's heart of darkness: Making sense of the MAGA movement Michel Gueldry, Salon July 31, 2022 America's heart of darkness: Making sense of the MAGA movement Trump supporters waiting for the arrival of President Donald J. Trump on Thursday 01/30/2020 at his Keep America Great Again rally in Des Moines, Iowa. (Shutterstock.com) The Republican-MAGA movement's reactionary agenda is clear enough. But the deeper motivations of many Trump supporters, at least beneath their absurd and offensive stated beliefs, is much less so. This article first appeared in Salon. What we might call the Great Demolition plot includes establishing a corporate oligarchy, a neo-feudalist regime based on long-term minoritarian rule and a malevolent pseudo-Christian theocracy undergirded by state thuggery and social authoritarianism, all of it infused with an incoherent ideological blend of anarchic libertarianism (on guns and most forms of regulatio...

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The Most Pathetic Men in America The Atlantic by Mark Leibovich / July 07, 2022 at 07:38AM//keep unread//hide When he wasn’t melting down over how “very badly” he was treated or acting like a seditious lunatic, Donald Trump could be downright serene in certain Washington settings—and never more so than when he would swan in for dinner at the Trump International Hotel, a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House and the only other place where he would ever agree to eat. Unlike the Obamas, who would sneak out for date nights at trendy restaurants, Trump’s dinners were hardly discreet. For Trump, a big, applauded entrance was as essential to the experience as the shrimp cocktail, fries, and 40-ounce steak. Each night, assorted MAGA tourists and administration bootlickers would descend on the atrium bar on the small chance they’d get to glimpse Trump himself in his abundant flesh—like catching Cinderella at the castle, or Hefner at the mansion. The hotel gave every impres...

Why Republicans want to redefine one word in the Constitution Zachary B. Wolf Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Updated 8:59 AM EDT, Wed July 6, 2022 National Archives/AP A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/independent-state-legislature-theory-what-matters/index.html — The US Supreme Court is on a tear remaking the way Americans live. It cut back states’ abilities to regulate the carrying of guns. It gave states the power to outlaw abortion. It undercut the power of the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies to regulate polluters. Next up could be a complete re-imagining of American democracy, where, if a legal theory based on the word “legislature” is adopted by the Supreme Court, state lawmakers could, in theory, have new power to ignore voters and pick presidents. The conservative-majority court has agreed to hear a North Carolina case...