POLITICS

The MAGA Crowd’s Motto Was Always F — k You

The whole point of supporting Trump was always political arson — owning the libs was just the entertaining side-benefit

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Inearly September of 2021, chants of “F-ck Joe Biden” had begun circulating at various sporting events throughout the country. Then on October 2, 2021, at the Talladega Speedway in Alabama, a young, professional stock car race driver named Brandon L. Brown had just won the race and was being interviewed by an NBC reporter named Kelli Stavast. Chants of “F-ck Joe Biden” became audibly clear in the background, and either because the reporter misheard or was trying to divert attention away from the foul language said, “You can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s go, Brandon!’”

And thus, a new rallying cry for the deplorables was born.

The Trumpistas, supporters of the former president, have never given a rat’s ass about any ideological domestic, foreign, or fiscal policy, let alone good governance. They were simply fed up with what they saw as a disconnected government, run by fat cats, corporations, and Ivy Leaguers, and they were more than happy to burn it all to the ground. What did they have to lose? This wasn’t a movement with a political ideology. It was an anarchist call to…