Over the last several weeks, I have written columns in which I argue that the MAGA ‘movement is nothing more than a digital invention which will shortly follow its leader into his well-earned obscurity and disappear. But the more I think about how the GOP has cynically embraced ultra-white nationalism and hyper-patriotic venom over the years, the more I am coming to believe that I’d rather see the GOP disappear with the MAGA movement picking up the scraps.
Let’s go back to when the GOP first started promoting itself as the party that would protect America’s most sacred traditions and values, which was the 1964 Goldwater campaign. For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP decided that Blacks were becoming more of a threat than all those home-grown Communists, a.k.a., a Red under every bed.