MAGA thinks the country has been taken by “those people,” be it immigrants or the Welfare people or the Chinese, or whatever. They don’t have any particular moral vision, but the downtrodden ex factory worker must be saved.
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*the nazis lose WWII* George Orwell: “has the Left gone too far?”
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One of my grandfathers lost his job because of McCarthyism, because he was accused of being a communist. He ultimately was fine, mind you, but it's a weird point in my family history.
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There's a great story that allegdly during one of the first WorldCons, one half of the con tried to have the other half thrown out for being commies
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All this stuff that still lay in the future -- Korea, Vietnam, COINTELPRO, the Birchers, the Minutemen, Kent State, Watergate The right wing wasn't even close to dead, the conservatives hadn't even gotten started fighting yet
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That's a very American perspective, of course, and I'm sure it looked different to Orwell as a British socialist in Atlee's England whose friends were all British socialists and who basically never interacted with Tories except via letters to the editor etc
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