by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve seen enough — MAGA is American Nazism. Or, put another way, the conditions are there for us to look back after all and said and done and realize that they signs were all there that MAGA would ultimately do as much damage to humanity as the Nazis did.
For the time being, MAGA remains a nebulous hodged podge of hate united by devoted to one man — ding-dong Donald Trump. And because of that there are still a number of different ways this could all end up.
One is Trump either is defeated by Ron DeSantis or something else forces him into political retirement and we go more of a Turkey or Hungary route. We’ll still be an autocratic illiberal “democracy” but we won’t suffer some of the fascist excesses that I fear might happen. Things will be more gradual. It won’t be until 10 or so years into DeSantis’ reign that it will become clear that we’re going to end up a lot more like Putin’s Russia that we could possibly imagine now.
Then there is the very dark Trump Endgame.
Actually there are a number of different scenarios associated with Trump. One is, Trump, unto himself, starts a civil war and we bomb ourselves into oblivion as Blue States and Red States fight it out. This Second American Civil War might happen for two reasons.
One would be Republicans steal the 2024 election in such a brazen manner that Blue States decide to bounce. The OTHER way we might have a civil war is Trump wins fair and square, but his second term agenda is so fascist, so radical that…Blue States decide to bounce.
Or, I suppose, Trump manages NOT to start a civil war, gets into office and we all wait to see how his equally bonkers and autocratic veep is able to do what once president that Trump was too stupid and lazy to do.
But having said all that, the fact remains — MAGA and Nazism are identical, at least in my mind. I find it hilarious how there are so many well meaning MAGA cocksuckers who are surprised by such comparisons and they are very heartfelt, earnest and patronizing in there efforts to talk to me. I’m sure there were similar Nazis back in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the Nazis grew in power. They often say things like, “Why do they hate us?” Or they get all touchy-feeling and act like it’s all a simple misunderstanding.
Well, fuck that.
There’s going to come a point when if you an earnest, well meaning MAGA person or one of those comically clueless anti-anti-MAGA people that you’re going to have to have a come to Jesus moment one way or another. You’re either going to have to go all-in with MAGA (Nazism) or you’re going to have to turn your back on it all.
There won’t be this fuzy, gray area where you think you have plausible deniability about if you’re a fucking American Nazi or not. Either you are or you aren’t.
We’re careening towards a very dark, very turbulent future where the sides will be just as clearly marked as they were in the 1930s and 1940s. No more quibbling or dodging what’s going on — are you a MAGA Nazi or are you not?
