Good Riddance to MAGA.

I have been fed up with The Nation magazine over the last several years because what used to be a fearless and honest voice on the liberal side of the media spectrum has been increasingly devoted to content which just drives the click-rate above where it really should be.

That being said, I must reverse myself for a minute and point out that a new article on the issue of what MAGA really represents hits a new high for contemporary political content and deserves to be quoted and widely read.

I’m referring to an article by Chris Lehmann, who covers DC-doings for The Nation, and has published lots of commentary about various political things, but this particular piece goes into much greater depth and detail than what we usually get from Lehmann or his other liberal pundit friends.

And basically, what Lehmann has caught onto is the degree to which the whole MAGA thing was invented by Trump as a way to create a new interest that would stand somewhat apart from the traditional GOP and would be based on what Lehmann refers to as an ‘aesthetic,’ which is another way of describing the Trump brand.

But the problem with this strategy was it worked for a while because it was new, it was different, and it was totally and completely under Trump’s control.