The MAGA movement wasn’t started by Trump. The MAGA movement has always been there. They were looking for a Trump to coalesce around.
47% of the people are nasty fascist racist bastards looking for a leader who represents their views.
Trump was canny enough to see that, exploit it and set himself up as the champion of these people.
It’s exactly the same in the UK. These self-same nationalistic racists are searching for a leader. They are coalescing around Farage.
They don’t care about morality. They don’t care about truth. They don’t care about rational thinking. They just want to vent their spleen and have someone agree with their simplistic solutions. They want all the immigrants out. They want Britain and the USA to be white. They want all the ‘foreign’ religions, foods, dress and culture banned (apart from curries). They want Britain and the USA to rule the world and put everyone else in their place. They hark back to the days of empire when we were great.
It’s no use arguing with them. It’s no good pointing out that back in the wonderful days of empire, when we were raping the world, the wealth was funnelled back to that 1% and their ancestors lived in slums and worked like slaves.
It’s not about logic, truth or rational thought.
So when Trump and Farage talk about walls and expulsions and threaten ‘foreigners’ they speak for this 47%.
When Trump or Farage are rude and arrogant to foreigners they are behaving in exactly the way that that 47% want to behave.
When they are racist, misogynistic and belligerent they are mirroring the way that 47% think is the right way.
When they talk about putting Britain and the USA first and dumping foreigners they are speaking their language.
There is nothing intelligent, rational or practical about it. They don’t really care if it works. They just want it done.
They know it’s lies. They know Trump and Farage are crooks. They don’t care.
They want vengeance! They feel let down by the system, by politicians, by everything. They see their rosy-tinted view of their culture being trashed. The country is full of brown-skinned people with different ways. They feel threatened. They have retreated to a view of what constitutes their culture – white, Christian and superior. They think they have an innate superiority. They should be ruling the world.
Trump and Farage leapt on to this bandwagon, said the right things and will deliver. That’s enough. They don’t care if it works. They don’t care if they end up suffering. They just want it done.
They know Farage and Trump are insincere. They know they are paying lip-service to everything. They know they are lining their pockets. They don’t care! They are getting done what they want to get done! Trump and Farage will be nasty to immigrants and foreigners. They will take drastic action. They will put white Americans and British back where they belong.
It’s sad.
Trump and Farage did not start this. It’s been coming for sixty years and growing. 9/11 and Muslim militancy gave it legs. Mass immigration is fuelling it. Poverty and decades of being lied to has spurred it into action. The decline of manufacturing which provided their jobs and pride has focussed their discontent. Globalisation has frustrated them. They have been ignored, abandoned and feel worthless. They see immigrants and foreigners being privileged. They are frustrated and angry. They have lost faith in politicians, institutions, education, science and argument. They are turning to nationalism, conspiracy, superstition, religion and populists. They are deeply fascist, racist, misogynist and irrational – even if they wouldn’t all admit it.
Until politicians start addressing the underlying issues things are going to get worse. Trump and Farage might not be too bright but they are sharp enough to home in on this underlying anger and know how to stir it up into red-hot hate so they can exploit it.
We have to become much cleverer.
Trump and Farage are products of a groundswell of discontent. That 47% do not buy into a multicultural future of prosperity and shared values. They want to subjugate and rule!