One can already hear the crying and gnashing of teeth: Thursday night, President Joe Biden called the MAGA ideology "semi-fascism."
As researcher Parker Molloy noted on Twitter, Fox News has been desperate for a repeat of Hillary Clinton's (entirely accurate) description of Donald Trump voters as "deplorables," and will not be able to resist the bait. The mainstream media's gaffe obsession will likely slot this comment into a "he slipped up" framework, unable to imagine that a Democratic politician might, once in awhile, say something truthful about the red hats on purpose. Hands will be wrung. Statements will be issued. The Republican National Committee has already described this moment of truth-telling "despicable," a word they notably did not use after Trump sent a violent mob to the Capitol to overthrow democracy.
