Of Course MAGAs are “Weird”

It’s what happens when you live in a fake world

There’s been some play in the media lately about how Democrats are criticizing right-wingers in the MAGA Mob for being “weird,” and how the MAGA rank and file is melting down over it.

3 things:

1. MAGAs are weird because they live in the Right Wing Alternative Reality
2. The way they behave is reasonable for that world
3. Their reaction indicates that this may have actually pierced their bubble a bit

They Are Weird

Those on the MAGA train actually:

• Believe that Trump won the election in 2020 (there’s still no evidence that he did)
• Listen to overtly political music
• Have created their own social media platforms so they don’t have to deal with liberals
• Only get their news from specific sources, based on what those sources tell them
• Show their support for Trump by dressing like him
• Create a secret “code” word and then tell everyone what it means
• Believe that liberals are satanic pedophiles who kill or abuse children to get high on their adrenaline
• Think that the economy is down and that crime is terrible
• Believe that DEI, migrant crime, immigration in general, liberals, critical race theory, and “wokeness” are “destroying America”
• Think that cities are cesspools of blood
• Cling to everything that they’ve been told liberals want to get rid of in order to make the world a better place
• Go to Trump rallies like they’re a major concert
• Have surrounded themselves with fellow MAGAs and alienated their liberal friends or family members
• Enthusiastically engage in performative patriotism
• Distrust the school system for teaching “woke” things, like anti-discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community
• Boycott any company that goes “woke”
• Follows a small group of B-list celebrities
• Have created a slew of MAGA-focused businesses for its followers to frequent, from novel “news” outlets, to beer that costs $30 for a 24-rack (if you subscribe to monthly shipping, $39 if you don’t), to a…