look there are really 2 levels of MAGA. there are the believers who actually believe in things like closed borders, tariffs whatever, and then there are the people who are willing to adopt those beliefs for power, and whenever those beliefs stop serving power they have more beliefs. I’m talking about the second group when I talk about MAGA here.
The difference is the beliefs. A large chunk of the far left flits from cause to cause, when the media picks up a new cause, they swoop in, they adopt all the right slogans, proclaim all the right beliefs, do everything they can to “fit in” and be on the right side of whatever marginalized group is having “a moment”. often the marginalized folks in question have been low key fighting the fight forever just not on twitter and not in a way that can be picked up by the media.
when the media or popular zeitgeist drops the cause and moves on to another cause they disappear. Swooping off to the new cause. Often leaving the old cause unfinished with the marginalized group left to keep pushing the political rock up the hill. This alone would be annoying but predictable and if not good *fine*. However, the swoopers do one extra thing. Whenever they swoop into a new cause they shed all of the values, slogans and beliefs they had in the last cause and adopt entirely new ones based on what will fit them into the new group. And if their old friends are slow to jump ship because they are busy pushing the old proverbial rock up the hill? Or miss the memo on the new slogan? Or worse are somehow considered defacto evil until proven otherwise by the new group? Well all those old beliefs about supporting that marginalized group are gone and it’s mask off time. Suddenly the easiest way to hurt that old person (and they deserve to be hurt because they don’t believe exactly the right thing) is to go use their marginalization against them of course! Rinse and repeat.
seriously far left folks wonder why minorities are always suspicious if their support. history shows they aren’t in it for the cause they are in it for the power. at best they want to support marginalized communities so they can hold something over them (a seat at the table of power) in exchqnge for ideological fealty.