MAGA’s Big Mistake: repairs instead of a trade-in

At the time, we had had fixers before, for many decades, who had promised results but always left us wanting.

But at bottom, what we needed was a “new” America. A new idea, a new heart and mind. Frankly, a new populace with a readiness to absorb all this and reject the old, failed version of America.

But the average Joe and Mary Sixpack had long been steeped in a brew with certain sacred components considered untouchable.

If you questioned the idea of an economy where the rich were heroes who had all gotten their wealth by the sweat of their brow and their unique ingenuity, then you were a bad American and didn’t belong here. “Go live in Russia, Commie.”

Thus, our economy supposedly rested on a bedrock of hardworking geniuses. That’s the proper image to be cultivated by all of us.

This latter idea was what led the US and its allies to become oligarchies, as detailed here by Ben Norton.

Further, you didn’t dare suggest that America was equal with other countries and should treat others that way. We were unique. We were exceptional, indispensable. All others should look uo to us and beg for our help with their affairs.

It was blasphemy to suggest otherwise.

And therefore, we had a God-given right to other countries’ stuff and hence a right to involve ourselves in the internal affairs of any other country. Under this concept there emerged countless regime change operations, violent coups d’etat, color revolutions and the like. No government was inviolate. All were threatened with regime change.

Trump acted in accordance with this latter idea when he suggested taking over Canada, Greenland and Mexico at the beginning of his second term. His MAGA followers went right along with this, though if he had actually tried to take over any of these territories, it would have led to a bloody war that the US was in no way guaranteed to win – despite Trump’s self-characterization as a “peace maker.”

Finally, the salient feature of “America” as an idea is that American officials must be defenders and servants NOT of America but of a foreign country, namely, Israel, and this is based not on any of the founding documents but on a totally fictional version of the Bible that turns the teachings of Jesus on their head.

And that version is generally called “Christian” Zionism, which is a death cult that has crept into the Evangelical “church” and now dominates the doctrine of that body in ways that have squeezed out the actual teachings of Jesus, leaving in their place a doctrine that leaves American “Christians” not as followers of Christ but hostages to the homicidal political mythology of the artificial pseudo-state of “Israel” parading as the modern embodiment of ancient Israel – whose populace has lost most of its Semitic DNA and all but a rudiment of its Torah-based doctrine.

It does not in any way deserve to be called Israel. And yet, the average US “Christian” is supposed to strictly adhere to a skewed exegesis of the Bible that reduces the average American to a shell of the original version of a Christian in faith and an American as envisioned by the founding fathers.

Trump embodies all of the emasculated ideas described above, leaving but an impotent shadow of what America supposedly stands for.

None of the followers of MAGA, Made America Great Again, ever answer the nagging question: when was it great before?

Trump meeting and giving his idiotic endorsement to “rehabilitated” ISIS / al-Qaeda terrorist al-Jolani.

Yet Trump’s hollow militarism suggests he wants an America that is just as belligerent and warlike as we always were, from the shameful history of Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears to the cruel and nationalistic (fascistic) Korean and Vietnam wars to the US-supported homicidal Nakba, the lie-based Iraq War and Libyan war, the Gaza genocide, the Obama-instigated Ukraine war, the Trump tariffs and Big Beautiful Bill that gutted the US economy, and the multiple regime changes that ousted progressive leaders like Patrice Lumumba, Bashar al-Assad and Salvador Allende and their replacement by homicidal autocrats like Pinochet and terrorist leader Mohammed al-Jolani?

Given our antecedents and Trump’s warmongering proclivities, it is clear that the Trumpites define greatness as war-making and the subjugation of the poor and downtrodden to fascistic, rich white men.

And that is the extent of the “greatness” Trump gave us.

Clearly, he was a fake and a hypocrite. And yet, in accordance with PT Barnum’s famous truism, America was full of those people who are born at the rate of one a minute.

Nonetheless, this article is not about Trump or any of the other failed leaders in America.

In a nutshell, it is about a much bigger issue, ie, the unipolar legacy of American politics versus the emerging multipolar, or multilateral world of the Global South and the BRICS.

The obvious military, diplomatic, moral and economic collapse of the old America is as plain as our noses, and heralds a better, brighter future for the world.

To make America great again is an impossibility because we were never great before.

But there is a distinct possibility of a new, multilateral, America arising from the ashes of the old one.

Just so those ashes are not nuclear.

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10-15, 2025 Max Blumenthal on official Charlie Kirk story

https://substack.com/home/post/p-174133286