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zozbot234today at 8:21 AM1 replyview on HN

MAGA is structurally a lot closer to a radical political movement than to right wing politics in the traditional sense (which, to be fair, is mostly dead in the U.S. and that's a huge problem that the left also has a lot to answer for). I don't know how you can possibly read my comment as advocating for MAGA, especially the varieties of it that are most overtly and blatantly hateful towards marginalized groups.


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thrancetoday at 8:38 AM

MAGA is just the logical end-point of any right-wing ideology. Just like every far right party in the world, it wasn't birthed in a vacuum. It's just amping up the same rhetoric that has been the bread and butter of right-wingers for half a century: perceived unsafety, anti-immigration sentiment, destruction of social nets in pursuit of these ever-elusive trickle-down economics, scapegoating of minorities...

I don't know how "radical" you can call it since it was popular enough to get the White House and most of congress. Twice.

I really don't see what in right-wing ideology has ever served the cause of minorities and marginalized groups, even before MAGA.