In short, it isn't conservative, populist or even Republican. It has elements of all of those, but at its root, it is simply an anti-progressivism movement.
Having been a professional academic but with a practical background and conservative values I can affirm that most campus faculty went from college to graduate school to a university department with their only practical experiences being internships or post-doc positions leading to eventual full time tenure track positions. Their campuses resemble special wildlife preserves for likeminded intellectual clones of their mentors. There is a larger unspoken allegiance to atheist left-wing worldviews. At the risk of sounding as if making ad hominem arguments the greater number of them are DINkS - double income couples with no kids. After a “national competitive search” gets one of them a position somehow the second half also gets a position at the same university, presumably after another unbiased search. Divorce, substance abuse and suicide rates all seem to be higher among this academic Brahmin caste which I attribute to the secular unrootedness in any faith in God or ordinary common sense. In place of the joy of procreating real children they take satisfaction in turning their advisées into intellectual clones of themselves. There may be skin color and sexual diversity among their ranks but real political and intellectual diversity is lacking. And their generally progressivist and anti-American worldview has infected the businessmen, civil servants, journalists and particularly the K-12 teachers whom they have indoctrinated.
A few years ago, I was having a discussion with a young consultant who was a freshly minted MBA. His only experience in the oil and gas space was from a consultant's perspective. As I was trying to explain how things worked, he stopped me and told me he was the expert and I only thought I knew more than him. I tactfully told him that about this part of the business, I did think I was smarter than him. He challenged my credentials and I told him that I have been running engineering heavy businesses within this space for two decades while he has been out of college for a year, of course I know more about how things really worked than he did. I was smarter than him about this particular thing simply because I had actual experience of doing it.
The arrogance of these folks floors me. I had two young students tell me that blacks couldn’t be racists because their sociology teacher had told them that “only members of the majority” could be racists. So I challenged them by asking couldn’t the blacks of South Africa be racist since they were the majority there? They fell completely silent probably not due to my counter-argument but more likely due to the fact they had no idea of where South Africa is nor knowing anything about its history.
Your description of MAGA is right on! Although most MAGA will write negatively about Democrats much more often than we write about Republicans, the "R" guys have a bad habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Look at the OBBB - the opportunity to do everything they've BSed about for years comes along and they fight among themselves to squeeze a little more pork for their district before supporting Trump. It seems all politicians are a waste of oxygen, and the people aren't far behind.
I suggest a historical read. Victor Davis Hanson: "The End of Everything: How Wars Decend into Annihilation." It provides some interesting perspectives, especially on the Roman Republic and Empire. My generation's world views were planted in the fourth grade at Nottingham Elementary School, where "assimilation" was a positive pursuit.
Ignorant, stupid, and uneducated, should I add deplorable, clowns, racist, white supremist, and Nazi's to the same list? You see, when a person runs out of a response to a challenged premise, they then resort to name calling, like the kids on the playground with the ever so smart response of - Oh Yeah, well you're an idiot!
For supposed civilized, pinky extended tea sippers, $25,000 fridge buying, multiroom mansion house owning, those Elites have a lot to learn about manners in common discourse. However smart they think they are, a common bully is the one who resorts to name calling when they have been bested. And MAGA is their 'bested' Daddy!
"It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron. ~H L Mencken
Having been a professional academic but with a practical background and conservative values I can affirm that most campus faculty went from college to graduate school to a university department with their only practical experiences being internships or post-doc positions leading to eventual full time tenure track positions. Their campuses resemble special wildlife preserves for likeminded intellectual clones of their mentors. There is a larger unspoken allegiance to atheist left-wing worldviews. At the risk of sounding as if making ad hominem arguments the greater number of them are DINkS - double income couples with no kids. After a “national competitive search” gets one of them a position somehow the second half also gets a position at the same university, presumably after another unbiased search. Divorce, substance abuse and suicide rates all seem to be higher among this academic Brahmin caste which I attribute to the secular unrootedness in any faith in God or ordinary common sense. In place of the joy of procreating real children they take satisfaction in turning their advisées into intellectual clones of themselves. There may be skin color and sexual diversity among their ranks but real political and intellectual diversity is lacking. And their generally progressivist and anti-American worldview has infected the businessmen, civil servants, journalists and particularly the K-12 teachers whom they have indoctrinated.
A few years ago, I was having a discussion with a young consultant who was a freshly minted MBA. His only experience in the oil and gas space was from a consultant's perspective. As I was trying to explain how things worked, he stopped me and told me he was the expert and I only thought I knew more than him. I tactfully told him that about this part of the business, I did think I was smarter than him. He challenged my credentials and I told him that I have been running engineering heavy businesses within this space for two decades while he has been out of college for a year, of course I know more about how things really worked than he did. I was smarter than him about this particular thing simply because I had actual experience of doing it.
The arrogance of these folks floors me. I had two young students tell me that blacks couldn’t be racists because their sociology teacher had told them that “only members of the majority” could be racists. So I challenged them by asking couldn’t the blacks of South Africa be racist since they were the majority there? They fell completely silent probably not due to my counter-argument but more likely due to the fact they had no idea of where South Africa is nor knowing anything about its history.
I've got a post in the works about this 2015 article I ran across last week while researching some stuff:
https://www.salon.com/2015/01/09/5_reasons_white_pride_is_always_racist_partner/
MAGA understands progressivism is a ruse.
Your description of MAGA is right on! Although most MAGA will write negatively about Democrats much more often than we write about Republicans, the "R" guys have a bad habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Look at the OBBB - the opportunity to do everything they've BSed about for years comes along and they fight among themselves to squeeze a little more pork for their district before supporting Trump. It seems all politicians are a waste of oxygen, and the people aren't far behind.
Thank you for this article!
I suggest a historical read. Victor Davis Hanson: "The End of Everything: How Wars Decend into Annihilation." It provides some interesting perspectives, especially on the Roman Republic and Empire. My generation's world views were planted in the fourth grade at Nottingham Elementary School, where "assimilation" was a positive pursuit.
Read it. Loved it. The parallels are remarkable.
DJT needs to pick up the reins and establish the First American Empire.
Long may our illustrious Emperor thrive and prosper!
Brilliant analysis
Ignorant, stupid, and uneducated, should I add deplorable, clowns, racist, white supremist, and Nazi's to the same list? You see, when a person runs out of a response to a challenged premise, they then resort to name calling, like the kids on the playground with the ever so smart response of - Oh Yeah, well you're an idiot!
For supposed civilized, pinky extended tea sippers, $25,000 fridge buying, multiroom mansion house owning, those Elites have a lot to learn about manners in common discourse. However smart they think they are, a common bully is the one who resorts to name calling when they have been bested. And MAGA is their 'bested' Daddy!