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Old 07-16-2023, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana View Post
So what?

If you're suggesting that MAGA is a direct extension of Tea Party Patriots, I won't argue. There's a difference though. The Tea Party wasn't a cult if personality.

Yep. The Tea Party were nihilists. Trump gave them something to believe in - himself as the savior of the America of their imaginations, a ChristoFascist autocracy run by a strongman.
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