Thomas Zimmer
In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.”
Utterly terrifying.
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Thomas Zimmer
Trumpism regards any opposition to this project of national purification and re-birth as fundamentally illegitimate. It is dogma among Trump’s supporters that he as their leader embodies the will of the true people, the Volk. Trump is the tribune of “real America.”
Thomas Zimmer
Anyone who dares to object has therefore forfeited the right to be considered “American” in any meaningful sense. And because the Trumpists are manifesting the “will of the people,” they do not feel bound by puny laws or pesky courts.
They really mean it. They are going to keep escalating.
Thomas Zimmer
To the Trumpists, the “enemy within” - those forces of radical leftism and globalist elites – are as acutely dangerous as the invaders from without.
In order to restore this declining nation to former glory, to Make America Great Again, it has as to be “purified” – the enemies have to be purged.
Thomas Zimmer
According to Trump and his supporters, only the providential leader can guide the nation to its re-birth and former glory – “Only I,” Trump used to say throughout the 2024 campaign. The rightwing base is all in on this, fiercely loyal to Trump personally, bound to him by a cult of personality.
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