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Trump Owns the GOP.

Mike Weisser
3 min readJan 24, 2024

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Yesterday I put up a story about a newly-published scholarly article which analyzed the attitudes of Americans about the efficacy of using violence to achieve political ends. The article was based on a public-opinion poll of 7,255 respondents of whom 15% were classified as supporters of MAGA because they voted for Trump and believed that the 2020 election was a fraud.

I’m not sure I would define MAGA supporters just based on how an individual voted in a single election and whether they bought Trump’s nonsense about the election being stolen from him. Be that as it may, however, to my mind the article raised serious concerns about the propensity that MAGA followers seem to have to support political violence, which feeds into what has become an accepted piece of liberal newspeak which sees a return of Trump to the White House as a collapse of American democratic traditions and norms.

If you want the latest example of this fear-mongering approach, take a listen to Rachel Maddow’s latest screed in which she states that Trump’s electoral victory later this year will be

‘the end of politics,’ and the replacement of democracy with an outright, autocratic regime. And she gets more than 2 million viewers when she goes on the air and peddles this crap?

Anyway, back to what the research group at University of California/Davis has learned about…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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