Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“An authoritarian movement cannot demand acquiescence from a formerly liberty-preserving populace for just any old reason. It has to be an emergency. And that’s what the pedophile fantasy has always provided. MAGA doesn’t tell its followers to vote for Republicans because the Democrats have the wrong prescriptions for the price of groceries or housing costs or education policy …. No, the heart of the MAGA message is that Trump’s opponents are not just wrong but part of a vast conspiracy to commit pretty much the worst crime most people can imagine. That’s why the MAGA faithful fervently pray for mass arrests in which the guilty will at last be separated from the innocent — a kind of secular Rapture. … At this point, it’s not even clear that those with access to the government’s information can distinguish between their imaginings and actual facts.” (07/28/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-maga-revolution-is-eating-its-own-conspiracy-theories-epstein