Posted on 05/01/2024 4:18:03 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
If you have spent any amount of time online as a Trump supporter, you have certainly seen the rhetoric. Both liberals and the DeSantis crew like to call MAGA a cult and seem excited at the thought of Donald Trump’s demise. They long for the days of a pre-Trump Republican party.
The reality is that while Trump is the current figurehead of the movement, it was birthed under Ron Paul. Ron Paul took fringe conversations such as no foreign wars and sound economics onto the main stage. Donald Trump then took many of these same conversations from the main stage to the mainstream. Republicans have historically had an insatiable lust for war. Donald Trump simply found it more effective to obtain peace by leading through a position of strength.
No new wars were started during Trump’s term in office.
Biden’s term has been the opposite of Trump’s in regard to American intervention in foreign conflict. Most things that the liberal mafia said would happen under Trump have since manifested under Joe Biden. Having deep connections with many in MAGA world, I understand the mentality of MAGA. Regardless of what the left and woke right would tell you, MAGA isn’t about Donald Trump. MAGA is simply the modern rebirth of populism and American sovereignty.
Donald Trump is just the current face of the movement, and MAGA will outlive Donald Trump by generations.
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I believe Donald Trump should and will win a second term in 2024. I also believe that whatever follows Donald Trump as the face of MAGA will be a bit spicier and equally charismatic. MAGA is here to stay.
Bkmk
Rand might be viable post-Trump. Depends.
He’s waited his turn long enough.
14 years in the Senate.
As long as the candidate is America First, I don’t care if they have a D or an R behind their name. Shocking? No. What’s shocking is the amount of people who still believe the Republicans in DC are not Uni Party and that all Dems are the evil bad guys.
Donald Trump is just the current face of the movement, and MAGA will outlive Donald Trump by generations.
Q: What ever became of the "Tea Party?" Same thing will happen with MAGA (unfortunately).
Regards,
The movement is real, but it’s been magnified since 2015 because it was led by a man who comes onto the national political scene only once every hundred years or so. He’s larger than life, and wealthy and eccentric enough that he doesn’t care what people think of him. And he was willing to put everything on the line for his country.
I would make the claim that the Tea Party was the forerunner of MAGA. The actual "tea party" may be no more but it's principles live on through MAGA.
MAGA, if Trump wins or loses, will be like the Tea Party. A general movement that’ll die off in time.
Something else will take its place, that’s how it is.
Where did Ron Paul stand on open borders?
Maybe it won't be called "MAGA" but the underlying political philosophy will live on.
What does Ron Paul stand on tariffs? Ron Paul is a libertarian airhead. Trump is an America First nationalist. What does Ron Paul stand on tariffs?
There's an argument to be made in favor of that position. I won't dispute it.
I nevertheless tend to believe that President Trump, himself, is irreplaceable to the movement - if even only as a figurehead.
I am not very sanguine about America's future generally and about conservatism in particular should President Trump ever be... excluded... from the stage. Sadly, I see no adequate successor to him.
Regards,
Ron Paul on tariffs:
https://www.isidewith.com/candidates/ron-paul/policies/economic/tariffs
Ron Paul on the border wall:
https://moneyandmarkets.com/paul-dont-need-border-wall-illegal-immigration/
Ron Paul is against foreign wars, but how would he plan on defending the country? You can only avoid foreign wars if you have strong, credible, deterrence. Aggressors don’t go away just because you don’t want foreign wars.
“The reality is that while Trump is the current figurehead of the movement, it was birthed under Ron Paul. Ron Paul took fringe conversations such as no foreign wars and sound economics onto the main stage.”
This is only a half truth. This perpetuates the myth started by the the establishment warhawks and the MIC. His stance was twisted into something it was not. The truth is Ron’s stance was if it was truly needed then go get it done with a show of strength and without hast and then bring the troops back to protect our own national borders. Even libertarians got this wrong by claiming he supported open borders, he did not, one quote he made was taken completely out of context and twisted into something it was not. He believes in nationalism and America first over foreign nation building at a cost of our own freedoms and financial future just so the MIC can profit.
“Trump is an America First nationalist.”
So is Ron Paul, read #14.
Fiscal stability, for example, was one of the linchpins of the Tea Party platform. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is the only person who will keep Donald Trump from being remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president since World War II.
Will MAGA continue on after Trump or not? It all depends on how much of the deepstate/uniparty apparatus he’s able to dismantle. It’s a tall order. Don’t expect some new Trump to arise from the old party system. Trump is a once in a lifetime phenomenon.
If the system stays as it is, if the only way for a true America first patriot to rise to power is for him to be a multi-billionaire with enough money to sustain his independence and whether the forces of lawfare on his own, then MAGA will fade away. Trumps don’t come around very often in history.
The Tea Party was ridiculed out of popularity. President Trump weathered the onslaught brought by leftists by extolling the virtues and truth of the America First idea leaving the detractors to talk to themselves.
I’ll never vote for anyone with a d behind their name. Like Bongino says, Republicans arent the answer to all your problems but dim-0s are the source of them.
MAGA is the tea party with a new name.
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