MAGAts, This Is Who You Are
For many years now I have written about the lack of distinction between a garden variety Trump supporter and the vile factions he has attracted. That if you stand side by side at a rally with white supremacists and Nazis, cheering along with them, you are no better than they. That you do not get to marinate in a sewer of racism, bigotry, misogyny, religious zealotry, and phobias of all ilk, yet somehow declare yourself clean.
It doesn’t work that way. You are the shit in which you swim.
At no point has your adoration been about economic anxiety. We ALL have economic anxiety, yet we don’t all clamor to prop up a literal bankrupt narcissist whose track record on ANYTHING is failure.
It has never been about a difference in politics. Hell, you don’t even understand politics, much less care that he stands for absolutely nothing that would help your lot in life.
Your willingness to debase yourselves has not been about a viable cause you believe in with your heart and soul. You are not about charity or godliness or even kindness. You flocked because you have been given permission to openly hate, lash out, indulge your inner, venal id.
You love Trump because he talks like you, acts like you, hates like you, and is a professional victim about everything … like you. Nothing is ever his fault, just as nothing is ever your fault. I know your personalities up close and personal, having two siblings with resumes the length of Charmin rolls (the multiroll roll variety) because <insert asshole boss, got screwed, did nothing wrong yet somehow got fired>. Nothing in their miserable, minimal lives has ever been down to their own bad choices, bad behaviors, severely lacking personalities and practices. Trump came along and let their fucked up freak flag fly.
It is with your gleeful, ignorant support that 600 children are still kidnapped from their parents at the border. Your mindless chanting emboldened your slovenly hero to attack Muslims, Hispanics, Black people, transgender people, the Affordable Care Act, DREAMers, and on and on.
Your adoration encouraged him to violate the Hatch Act, the emoluments clause, openly discuss national security matters in front of Mar-a-loser members.
Your mouthbreathing servitude allowed him to foment such anger and hate that murders in the streets have been the result. You own Aubrey Ahmed’s murder. You own the murders doled out by Kyle Rittenhouse. You own the trash cops that gunned down Breonna Taylor in her own home. You own the pathetic excuse for a cop that knelt on George Floyd’s neck until he died in the street. You own every bruise from rubber bullets, every labored gasp from tear gas unleashed with his orders and your approval.
You are no better than the terrorists you love to point at overseas. In fact, your disgusting truck parades look exactly like those you castigate in far flung countries.
And now, as new details have been released about the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, they need shoved in your deadeyed faces because THIS is who you ARE. These are your comrades, the 2nd amendment cosplayers you fap over, the gunned up pals you shouted “Liberate” with.
According to new officials filings against the 14 homegrown, America born and bred terrorists, not only was there the plan we all found out about in which Whitmer would be kidnapped and put on “trial.” Apparently there were also Plans B and C.
Pull up a chair and hear what your cult buddies had in store…
In Plan B, over 200 armed combatants would take over the capital building and all inside. They would then stage a week long series of televised executions of government officials
Proud of your cronies? Make you all warm inside?
Plan C was simpler, but then great thinking is not exactly the hallmark of the Trump coven. In Plan C they would burn down the state house completely, leaving no survivors.
These plots, the deaths threats consistently being received by Democrat governors across the country, owe to the constant rhetoric and lies of Trump, and the constant ebullient joy you give him by cheering inanely. YOU own this.
YOU ARE THIS.
This is the side you chose, the dangers you created, the “causes” you embrace. This is the result of years of mental pablum fed to you by FOX, OANN, Breitbart, The Federalist, Red State, The Blaze, and the biggest loser of them all — Donald J. Trump.
We are lucky these plots were discovered, the criminal scum apprehended before they could put their murderous plans into action. But what about the next mentally deficient band of merry LARPers who don’t get caught? Who are able to kidnap a governor, set ablaze a capital building, kill legislators and their families? Make no mistake, out there in those rally crowds, standing next to you clapping like deranged seals, are the next round of terrorists.
Aided and abetted by Trump, by his henchmen, by YOU.
We all know by now that the truth is anathema to your way of thinking, way of life. If it doesn’t reinforce your inner narrative of victimhood, persecution, and Tom Clancy level subterfuge, then it is violently thrown off as FAKE NEWS. If you didn’t read it in a Q-drop, then it cannot possibly be real. If Trump did not babble about it at the bully pulpit, then it isn’t real. (News flash — windmill cancer=NOT REAL; 15 flush toilets=NOT A PROBLEM; enlarged prostate-like dribbling shower heads=BULLSHIT; War On Christmas=NEVER WAS A THING)
What is true would be things like these: Trump lost the election. By A LOT. Trump is not religious. He NEVER has been. Trump is the stupidest man to ever sit in the Oval. EVER. And Trump has zero use for you outside staying in power and grifting your wallets. See latest email you surely have in your inbox.
You sold your souls to an orange devil with scarecrow hair. You turned your backs on decency, honesty, sanity to worship at the altar of a man who ruins everything he touches. You stand forever stained, forever putrid — the stench of the Trump sewer all that you will have to show for your complete abdication of your own humanity.
I used to write and explore the question What Will It Take? What would it take to get through to you? What would it take to open your eyes? For you to finally be so appalled by Trump’s or your own behavior that you would snap out of it? What would it take for you to beg to rejoin decent society? I no longer ask that question.
You like who you are, who you stand with, the terror you bring about, the deaths you cause. You are vile. You are venal. And when more people die from COVID (257,776 as of this afternoon — 2,667 since yesterday morning) or are endangered by radical, homemade terrorists, you are 100% accomplices.
MAGAts, THIS is who you ARE.
