I can’t seem to get a straight definition of what a MAGA is. Best I can tell is it’s anyone who supports Trump over Biden, which would be somewhere north of 100,000,000 Americans.
Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
A great article by David Brooks that perfectly describes the current state of the GOP. It describes a reversion to the old days before Eisenhower.
The G.O.P. Returns to Its Bad Old Self
The Republican Party in the 1920s, ’30s and early ’40s was steeped in pessimism, and that pessimism showed up as it often does: as nativism, isolationism and protectionism. In 1924, Republicans set strict immigration quotas with the Johnson-Reed Act. As World War II loomed, Senator Gerald Nye urged the passage of several neutrality acts to keep us from exporting arms to warring nations and opposed Lend-Lease to Britain. Senator Robert Taft supported the America First movement before the United States joined the war, and after the war he opposed the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which was designed to lower trade barriers.
Ronald Reagan gets most of the credit, but it was Ike, not Reagan, who transformed the G.O.P. from an anxious, inward-looking party into a confident, outward-facing one. He and his internationalist successors believed that the only way to prevent more world wars was to build a multilateral democratic world order.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/o...lican-gop.html
I would recommend everyone read this if they can.