I was a MAGA volunteer and activist from the beginning of the Trump campaign in 2015 right through to 2022. Here’s what you might not know: The MAGA faithful I knew loathed Ronna McDaniel, who led the Republican National Committee through most of that period, nearly as much as they (and I) loathed the Democratic Party and everyone else perceived as enemies of Donald Trump and his movement.
To us, in fact, she was never Ronna McDaniel. As the niece of 2012 Republican nominee turned U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, a well-known Trump skeptic, she was always Ronna Romney, with added emphasis on that name. It was something of a political scarlet letter, and like her uncle, Ronna was regarded as a Vichy-style quisling, a RINO who was worse than almost any Democrat, with the possible exception of Barack Hussein Obama.
