MAGA is a zero sum cult. It's about needing to win at something when everything else isn't working anymore. It's about owning the libs, stopping "wokeism" or whatever else the right wing echo sphere tells them.
It's about grievance.
For just a few minutes these people need to feel superior to someone else because they have an axe to grind with how their life quality has declined over the years.
Trump gave them their walking papers and permission to be cruel and dismissive along with the promise they nothing bad would happen to them. They want to see others suffer for a change while they are spared.
It's easy to call these people stupid and some of them are. But mostly they are ignorant and incurious enough to fall for a snake oil salesman who tells them he will fix their misery.
They aren't policy wonks but instead just want to be able to pay their bills and stop feeling like they are always falling behind.
The American dream is gone for most of them and now the best hope is to hold down a steady income and staying healthy so they don't need to declare bankruptcy after being unable to pay their medical bills.
Just wait till they find out it was all a scam.
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