MAGA is often dismissed as racist, homophobic, and generally regressive. But that focus misses the point.
MAGA is a big tent, and the defining characteristics are anger, entitlement, and raving stupidity. Those qualities subsume racism, homophobia, and antisemitism. But there are a lot of diverse Americans who fall under the tent, too. And as long as they’re shouting idiotic crap about “Brandon” and knob-jobbing Trump, they’re accepted into the cult.
We need to recognize that we’re not dealing with some one dimensional hate group here. It’s a cult of Dunning Kruger exemplars; many are bigots, many are not. But they’re all angry morons with way too much confidence in their own intellect, a sense that the world owes them a place at the top, and the asinine belief that a self-absorbed huckster like Donald Trump will give it to them.