realcaseyrollins ✝️<p><span class=""><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://zirk.us/@interfluidity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>interfluidity</span></a></span> </span>The idea that <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/maga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> seeks exclusively to hold power for power’s sake doesn’t really map onto rhetoric I’ve heard from <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/maga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> extremists (using <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/realamericasvoice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RealAmericasVoice</a> hosts like <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/stevebannon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SteveBannon</a> or even those adjacent to them such as <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/jackposobiec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JackPosobiec</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/charliekirk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CharlieKirk</a>, as my baseline)</p><p>I think <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/maga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> is a cult that, like many other cults, offers a grand vision of turning the world into a utopia. The cult members feel a nearly divine calling, and since many of them have also been sold the line that the <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/maga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> mission of following <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is endorsed by <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.teci.world/tag/god" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#God</a>, they feel uniquely emboldened to bring forth that vision through any means necessary.</p>