@interfluidity The idea that #MAGA seeks exclusively to hold power for power’s sake doesn’t really map onto rhetoric I’ve heard from #MAGA extremists (using #RealAmericasVoice hosts like #SteveBannon or even those adjacent to them such as #JackPosobiec and #CharlieKirk, as my baseline)

I think #MAGA is a cult that, like many other cults, offers a grand vision of turning the world into a utopia. The cult members feel a nearly divine calling, and since many of them have also been sold the line that the #MAGA mission of following #Trump is endorsed by #God, they feel uniquely emboldened to bring forth that vision through any means necessary.