8 IX 2022: MAGA is really MAOA

The Trumpists’ logo, MAGA, is a coded form of their real slogan, MAOA, “Make America Ours Again.” Trump and the Trump base are the froth on the top of a nationwide regressionist movement. This regression is a delusional effort to return to a male-dominated, Christian-supremacist, white-supremacist America. At all levels of society, people are agitated by fear, resentment, and anger, as they see, or are led to see, the America they thought “belonged” to them slipping away. But what they really fear, what they resent, and what makes them furious is change, inevitable change they cannot control, change that they believe will not be to their advantage. Contributing to this fear is their consciousness of advantages unfairly seized, long enjoyed, and violently maintained. However much MAOAists, great and small, try to deny this consciousness, it remains the source of an implied fear of retribution that enhances the crippling fear of change.