It certainly touches on a theme we examined here.
Trump supporters have never been able to answer the simple question of when America 'was' great. 'MAGA' implies that America was great at some previous time, but no longer is. Trump never explained the motto, which leaves everyone to guess.
When 'WAS' America great?
Naturally, MAGA supporters cannot answer the question.
I posed it often back when it began. Answers were all over the place, that is, when you could get a straight answer.
Mostly, if you asked a MAGA supporter the direct question, they avoided it with whataboutism, insults, whatever.
How silly to be a part of a movement which cannot answer a basic question about the fundamental basis of the movement.
The question was so difficult that simply asking it made many of them angry, and they ended up on my Ignore List just because I asked that simple question.
The few that did answer it surmised that it was back when Jim Crow was still in force and white men were the breadwinners and kings of their own little castle. Wives were ordered around just like children, and had little say because they didn't 'bring home the bacon.'
Naturally, old white men are uncomfortable to be placed in the position of having to defend this uneven system which favored them.
The younger ones are angry because they got to hear about this system growing up which would have been favorable to them, but it was snatched away just as they came of age. Women got more rights, and more importantly they got jobs, incomes and power. Young men found that the things they were raised to expect never came true for them, leading them to harbor great resentment.
Resentment that Fox Propaganda Channel and Trump tapped into and harnessed for political power.
