“Pluralism is a lie”
That really captures the essence of MAGA: A movement at war with the reality of American life and a large portion of the population.
And it also points to one of the regime’s key weaknesses: They have fully bought into their own white nationalist propaganda.
The resistance the regime has encountered on the ground matters not only because it exposed the MAGA government’s struggles to consolidate authoritarian rule. It matters because it refutes the core premise of MAGA’s worldview: That a multiracial, pluralistic society cannot – it must not! – work.
This is the question that defines the political conflict of our time: Can society function as an egalitarian democracy under conditions of multiracial, multi-religious, multicultural pluralism? The fundamental claim of ethno-nationalist movements across the world is that it cannot.
The necessary social cohesion for a nation to endure, the Trumpists want us to believe, can only be achieved in a racially, culturally, religiously, and ethnically homogeneous “Volk” – and only when that “Volk” is allowed to impose a strictly hierarchical order in its “homeland.”
It is inconceivable to MAGA ideologues that anyone outside the circles of an “anti-American” conspiracy could truly believe in egalitarian democracy and be willing to defend a vision of multiracial pluralism. They are convinced it is all a lie propagated by “globalist elites.”
Thomas Zimmer
