Source: The Dispatch
by Megan Dent
“Some tentatively hoped that even with Trump at the helm, MAGA’s diagnosis of voters’ discontent — which Democrats still couldn’t get a handle on — was at least broadly accurate enough to lead to some positive changes. At this point in the administration’s tenure, however, such hope recedes and a grimmer reality appears. Its most unsettling feature is not Trump being Trump — his rashness, instability, and torching of norms are all playing out as promised — but the fact that a movement built on decrying the existential threat of leftist activism expects us to believe that unchecked activism from its own side will somehow produce different results. In other words, countering the excesses of the left with the same excesses on the right dooms those on the political right to repeat, rather than correct, the follies of their opponents.” (03/17/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/illiberal-power-left-right-maga/