MAGA Cult Attracts Avoidant People
There is a pattern in the faces at Trump rallies that most political analysts never talk about.
Not the anger. The anger is obvious. The anger is the whole aesthetic of the movement.
What sits underneath the anger is harder to name. A specific kind of pain. A lifetime of suppressed emotion that has been handed a permission slip. A group of people who were never taught to feel anything except rage finally being told that rage is not just acceptable. It is righteous. It is strength. It is the entire point.
Understanding how that happens requires going back much further than 2015. It requires…
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