Dear Ma & Pa MAGA:

[Caliman73]

24. It has all been the same path...

There really isn't any distinction between today's MAGA and the Dittoheads of the 90's and 2000's. Just a matter of degrees. Trump took off the very thin pseudo intellectual veneer, mainly because he isn't very intellectually adept. He has a carnival barker skill for self promotion but his articulation is among the worst ever in politics. Limbaugh said essentially the same things, but he had a better vocabulary and slightly better skill at crystallizing a point.

When you have and buy into a Conservative mindset, eventually you will arrive at what MAGA type people espouse. Either that, you will withdraw from politics and simply vote and not publicly hold the beliefs, OR, if society is lucky, you will abandon Conservative ideology and be on the correct side of history.

Both left and right CAN lead to authoritarianism, but only the right guarantees it. When the appropriate shape of society is a pyramid, which it is in Conservative and right wing ideologies, you accept promote that some people are "just better than others".