A few months ago, some marketer got hold of my cellphone number, and I’ve been deluged ever since with text appeals from MAGA world and the GOP. One sample from just the last few days: ”IMPEACH BIDEN POLL DUE TONIGHT! Mona, we’re begging, please take 30 seconds to join fellow patriots and take the official GOP poll.”
Watching the midterms play out, and seeing the GOP nominate people like Herschel Walker, Don Bolduc, Doug Mastriano and Kari Lake, I am struck by a strange incongruity. MAGA messages incessantly invoke love of America. But it’s worth pausing to wonder what they love. Their professed love for America leads them to rally around Walker, who seems to be both a mentally unstable and bad man.
