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DemocratSinceBirth

(100,910 posts)
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:08 PM Nov 2024

Should MAGA be normalized?


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Yes
3 (8%)
No
33 (92%)
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Should MAGA be normalized? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2024 OP
Say what? NoRethugFriends Nov 2024 #1
Yes. In the same way that drunk driving or poisen ivy is normal. Ping Tung Nov 2024 #10
Does it matter? WarGamer Nov 2024 #2
it's already normalized. NT Tickle Nov 2024 #3
Should Nazis be normalized? I think not. ratchiweenie Nov 2024 #4
Let's try and take the Frank Luntz approach Submariner Nov 2024 #5
A better question is "Why was MAGA normalized?" Renew Deal Nov 2024 #6
+1 leftstreet Nov 2024 #7
It was profitable for the Corporate Media. They're the ones that normalized Maggots in the first place. msfiddlestix Nov 2024 #14
That's a question... Hippasus Nov 2024 #17
Define normal. bluesbassman Nov 2024 #8
Anything with support of 75+ million Americans Zeitghost Nov 2024 #19
Our media has been trying to convince the public that being a heartless shitbag is a way to get ahead... tenderfoot Nov 2024 #9
It doesn't ForgedCrank Nov 2024 #11
Not a chance EnergizedLib Nov 2024 #12
That's like asking should Nazis be normalized Dem4life1234 Nov 2024 #13
As I've said before... NEOH Nov 2024 #15
No. (nt) Hippasus Nov 2024 #16
Hate should never be normalized. Vinca Nov 2024 #18
Hate to say, but I think It's time we start to welcome them with open arms. Chakaconcarne Nov 2024 #20

WarGamer

(16,990 posts)
2. Does it matter?
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:10 PM
Nov 2024

Normalized or not, a majority of the voters picked him and the other half are upset.

Trump or any of his henchmen won't be restricted by being "not normalized"

Submariner

(12,965 posts)
5. Let's try and take the Frank Luntz approach
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:58 PM
Nov 2024

and make it work for us.

Relentlessly criticize and defang maga to the point where we can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub before the next election.

msfiddlestix

(8,043 posts)
14. It was profitable for the Corporate Media. They're the ones that normalized Maggots in the first place.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:23 PM
Nov 2024
 

Hippasus

(54 posts)
17. That's a question...
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:42 PM
Nov 2024

…that requires going back some five centuries in history here in America.

 

Zeitghost

(4,557 posts)
19. Anything with support of 75+ million Americans
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:56 PM
Nov 2024

And half the voting public, is by definition, "normal".

 

tenderfoot

(8,982 posts)
9. Our media has been trying to convince the public that being a heartless shitbag is a way to get ahead...
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:08 PM
Nov 2024

Last edited Wed Nov 13, 2024, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)

for the past 40+ years.

ForgedCrank

(2,611 posts)
11. It doesn't
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:10 PM
Nov 2024

much matter what we think, MAGA is already normalized.
I mean, we just watched the election happen.

Dem4life1234

(2,530 posts)
13. That's like asking should Nazis be normalized
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:19 PM
Nov 2024

Being a MAGAt to me is treasonous. They are literary ruining the country, the world, and the mother nature.

Chakaconcarne

(2,749 posts)
20. Hate to say, but I think It's time we start to welcome them with open arms.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 04:22 PM
Nov 2024

Then knee 'em in the fucking privates!

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