• Hawke@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    That’s not necessarily the way to “build a progressive party”.

    On the right-wing side think of how MAGA has overshadowed “Republican”, eating it from the inside.

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      16 days ago

      Hating people is easy. Caring about them is (apparently) hard. Quicker, easier, more seductive is MAGA compared to being progressive.

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        16 days ago

        Totally, but MAGA took decades to sprout from a Tea Party seed, or further back even.

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          16 days ago

          I still call them teabaggers, or more appropriately, TeaBirchers, since what is now branded “MAGA” (eyeroll), and for a brief period of time called “teabaggers” [1], is the same warmed-over shit from the Birchers, basically.

          [1] Though they scream and lie about it now, they called themselves teabaggers. Some of them did not know about the sexual term, but I’m sure some did, and hoped to use it as a way they were going to be sexually dominating others and then laughing about it later. Once Maddow and others started openly mocking them for it, they figured it might not work out like they thought and then pretended the MEAN LIBERALS are the ones that called them this. I kept getting banned from Denver Post forums for calling them by their original name, because they had teabagging moderators.