Monday, August 25, 2025

A pyromaniac in a field of straw men

A professor from Villanova traveled to Colonial Williamsburg and he wants to shoehorn some anti-Trump rhetoric into his trip report: "MAGA has emptied ‘America’ of meaning"
Why, then, do his loyalists consider themselves some of the most patriotic Americans ever? How could it be that this voting bloc — one that decries a free press as the enemy of the people, that doesn’t respect election results, and that believes the president should have unlimited power — truly believes itself to be carrying forth the legacy of our freedom-loving, press-protecting, tyrant-mocking ancestors?
None of this is true and/or there are countervailing arguments on the other side.  There are legitimate complaints that could be made about the MAGA movement but the Left always resorts to - what's the word? - lying.

I don't think MAGA considers the free press the "enemy of the people" but I do believe they regard it as hopelessly biased and worthy of criticism.  There's not a single MAGA person who wants to get rid of Fox News but they also don't want to pay for NPR.  Do you see the distinction here, Brandon?  And I don't even know where you got this "unlimited power" nonsense.  Just completely made up.

2 comments:

Paul Sand said...

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1114221533461790721

Don't know if there's anything more recent, though.

Eric said...

OK, that's a fair point. Thanks for the comment.