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Why MAGA Worships Losers · The Lucas Bean Show

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  SPEAKER_00: Why the MAGA cult turns mediocre zeros into heroes.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a psychological reason for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charlie Kirk got rejected from West Point.
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  SPEAKER_00: He dropped out of community college.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said the most horrible things with a smile on his face.
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  SPEAKER_00: MAGA doesn't really wonder why you didn't like him.
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  SPEAKER_00: They know how hateful he was.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elon Musk is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump is a dumb person's idea of what a successful person looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: They worship Andrew Tate,
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  SPEAKER_00: a fake tough guy who owned nothing he bragged about owning in his videos.
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  SPEAKER_00: They watch fake news.
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  SPEAKER_00: They cheer for fake wrestling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything they celebrate is fake.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1976,
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  SPEAKER_00: researcher Robert Cialdini at Arizona State University studied what happens
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  SPEAKER_00: when people claim connection to winners just to feel like winners themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: He called it basking in reflected glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means people boost their own self-image by claiming a connection to someone successful.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't do any of the work to earn that glory for themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They just stand next to someone they perceived as great and hope some of it rubs off on them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Truly accomplished people want nothing to do with the Maga Cult.
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  SPEAKER_00: Real experts wouldn't give these people the time of day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Maga Cult can't bask in real glory because real glory wants nothing to do with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Maga Cult had to build its own heroes out of people who are failures just like them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A racist college dropout who didn't know how to debate people becomes their political genius.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man who went bankrupt six times becomes their business icon.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man who can't pass a basic science quiz becomes the smartest man alive to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't pick these people in spite of the fact they're mediocre.
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  SPEAKER_00: They pick these people because they're mediocre.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because a fraud who gets famous tells every other fraud in the audience
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  SPEAKER_00: that you didn't need to earn anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: MAGA creates heroes out of losers because that's exactly who they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Weak mediocre people who peaked in high school.