The 2022 Senate elections exposed the MAGA movement’s weakness

Their performance foreshadows the 2024 elections. Two core beliefs define the MAGA movement. The first and most prominent is loyalty to the founder of the MAGA movement, Former President Donald Trump. They are the bedrock loyalists promoting the big lie that he won the 2020 presidential election due to his victory being stolen. In the House of Representatives, his most adherent loyalists are the self-proclaimed MAGA Squad in the Republican Freedom Caucus. The Washington Post described them as the “Trump loyalists within the Freedom Caucus known as the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-maga-squad/2021/12/26/654f49ea-5448-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">‘MAGA Squad,’</a> including Paul Gosar, Margery Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Cawthorn" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Madison Cawthorn</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Gohmert" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Louie Gohmert</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Brooks" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Mo Brooks</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Biggs" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Andy Biggs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Perry_(politician)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Perry</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Boebert" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lauren Boebert</a>.” The emphasis on personal loyalty to any US President skids off a democratic government’s rails. Allegiance to a leader is the core belief that has sustained authoritarian rule in other countries. I’ve noted before that <a href="https://www.becomingacitizenactivist.org/trump-disrupts-distinction-personal-loyalty-constitutional-allegiance/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Trump Disrupts the Distinction Between Personal Loyalty & Constitutional Allegiance</a>. As Trump runs for President and other Republican presidential candidates emerge, that loyalty may be tested against adherence to the second major characteristic of the MAGA movement: <a href="https://nicklicata.medium.com/the-2022-senate-elections-exposed-the-maga-movements-weakness-e1acaab2a548">Learn More</a>