What Will Happen to the MAGA Brand?

Last night I watched a great Gene Hackman movie, Mississippi Burning, about the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. I remember when the case was solved because coincidentally I knew Mickey Schwerner’s mother and one of my cousins had also spent that summer registering blacks to vote in several Southern states.

That murder took place sixty years ago and it is simply impossible to imagine such an event occurring again. Even with all the talk about how Trump and MAGA represent a ‘threat’ to democracy, even with all the concerns about the violence that will erupt if Trump gets sent to jail, even with crazy morons like Marjorie Taylor Greene going on and on about another ‘civil war,’ this country is in a much different place when than it was in the 1960’s when we talk or think about race.

Am I saying there’s no racism around? No. Am I saying that even in my state of Massachusetts, which was the ‘abolitionist’ state, that I don’t occasionally see some jerkoff driving around in his truck with a Confederate flag fluttering in the breeze? Nope. Am I saying that human beings aren’t capable of expressing and behaving themselves in nasty, hurtful and hateful ways? No sir.

What I am saying, or am about to say, is that at some point Trump and his MAGA bullshit will begin to fade and then disappear, because that’s what…