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AStern

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Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:42 PM 19 hrs ago

How MAGA And The New Right Was Born Laura K. Field TMR

Political theorist, Laura K. Field joins Sam and Emma to discuss her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.

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How MAGA And The New Right Was Born Laura K. Field TMR (Original Post) AStern 19 hrs ago OP
if that ain't bad enough .... rampartd 14 hrs ago #1
The most effective mass propaganda campaign since WWII generated the faux rage, the fake entitlement, and the Ford_Prefect 14 hrs ago #2

rampartd

(3,634 posts)
1. if that ain't bad enough ....
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:18 AM
14 hrs ago

these guys are true believers, waving american flags and carrying crosses.

and then there are truer believers with nazi flags and ar=15s

and the truest? trump "challenge coin" and waving pardons

we seem to be losing the class war to the lowest class there is.

Sam seder doing a podcast with a girl who can sort the maga into a darkly straussian ecosystem. And I really could not tell you much about strauss but maybe a hobbsian war of all vs all?


Leo Strauss - Wikipedia

Natural Law / Natural Rights

Central to his writings is the tension between reason and revelation,

Which may be a question of great import but might just be deep german bull shit.

Ford_Prefect

(8,502 posts)
2. The most effective mass propaganda campaign since WWII generated the faux rage, the fake entitlement, and the
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:35 AM
14 hrs ago

false claims of America as fundamentally a white, Christian nation. It was built up over 4 decades and began with the right wing rich deciding post-Nixon that a free press had to be muzzled in order to allow them to control America.

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