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If MAGA’s the Name, Then Chaos is the Game

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Faced with a revolt among his MAGA faithful over his decision to join Israel in starting a war with Iran, our increasingly demented and delusional president declared this week that “MAGA is Trump.”  He was responding to, among others, MAGA stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly who rightfully called him out for abandoning his vow to “abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change”  and his endlessly repeated lie of an “America First” agenda.

Indeed, the nation and world watch in stunned disbelief and overwhelming opposition as two-out-of-three American disapprove of this haphazard war. That’s no surprise given the fiascos over the Weapons of Mass Destruction that didn’t turn up in Iraq, the long, bloody, and losing effort in Afghanistan, and the recent kidnapping of Venezuela’s president and wife in a blatant attempt to take over the world’s largest known oil reserves.

Even worse is what seems to be utter confusion about what we’re doing........

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