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MAGA is a Family of Abusive People

You push someone. They push back.

And then you point at them and say: look how aggressive they are.

That sequence is the oldest manipulation in human relationships. It is the move every abuser knows by instinct. Provoke a reaction, then use the reaction to erase everything you did to cause it. The conversation that should have been about your behavior is now about their response. And the longer the argument goes on, the further it drifts from what actually happened.

In 1997, psychologist Jennifer Freyd at the University of Oregon gave this pattern a name. She called it DARVO: Deny, Attack…

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