There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make America great
again.
After the disaster caused by Biden and his cohort of clowns
in his administration, it’s something we should all be in favor of. Yet somehow Democrats have tried to make the
desire to make America great again (or “MAGA”) a horrible, loathsome thing.
How strange.
They usually add “extremists” whenever they use MAGA as an
adjective.
So anybody who supports making America great again must be
an extremist. Are they all part of an insidious
plot to trample on the Constitution to seize power? Are they trying to keep political
rivals tied up in court? Are these extremists removing opposition candidates
from ballots? Or using the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and IRS to harass and intimidate ordinary
citizens? Have they co-opted the media to promote false narratives, censor
dissent, and hide the truth?
If so, then they really are dangerous extremists. A danger
to our democracy.
Oh wait. That’s what Biden and the Democrats are doing.
Never mind.
MAGA for Democrats and the media has become their shorthand
to imply that anyone who endorses it is essentially evil. Really evil.
As in bringing back slavery and lynchings, repealing voting rights,
persecuting gays, and forcing women to die from back-room abortions. That kind
of pure evil. Not only that, but also white
supremacists, bigots, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, and religious fanatics
who would replace our Democratic government with an Old Testament Christian
theocracy.
Run, of course, by white men. Think Taliban without the
beards.
And destroy democracy as we know it. Or as Democrats think it should be which,
frankly, has far more in common with classic fascism than they realize.
The reason they hate the actual words abbreviated by MAGA so
much is blindingly obvious.
Making America great again speaks to what our country once
was; a country many of us still remember fondly. It also speaks to restoring the promise that
made it great and attracted legal immigrants from around the world – that
America is in fact a land of opportunity where anyone willing to work hard can
succeed. A great melting pot of races
and cultures, with freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and most of all, the
freedom from government tyranny.
It's the antithesis of the America many of us feel we have
now.
It’s no longer fashionable to have pride in our
country. Or to think of our country as a
discrete nation. The people running things – in education, government, and even
the military – are completely out of touch with the citizens they’re supposed
to be working for. They act like an
aristocracy above the rest of us, immune from any accountability for their
actions.
If we’re all brutally honest in recent years there’s been a
concerted effort to diminish everything good we’ve ever done here and abroad. No
other country in the world has done so much to raise people out of poverty,
free them from tyranny, improve their lives, and eliminate diseases that
shortened their lives. Not just here, but around the world.
We have long been one of the most generous and benevolent
people.
That’s who we are as a nation. You’d never know it from what is taught today
in our public schools and our once-elite institutions of higher education.
What always set us apart from many other countries was that while
we may come from different backgrounds, cultures, races, and religions, we somehow
shared a broader identity as Americans. Irish
Americans, Polish Americans, Italian Americans, African Americans, whatever,
but ultimately Americans. In times of
crisis or war, we stood together. As Americans.
At least we once did.
Yet no longer do we seem able or encouraged to bury our
differences and come together for the common good. Instead, we are constantly driven apart by
race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and an unending list of evermore
infinitesimal traits.
We’ve never been more divided as a nation since the Civil
War in the 1860s.
By whom is the question, and Democrats are afraid that by
now the American people have an excellent grasp of who is responsible. And appear
ready to retake the country.
The motto of our country is out of many, one. We seem to
have forgotten that. Democrats dismiss this
because the power to divide is their favorite tool to maintain control.
Make America Great Again is a call to reassume our
traditional role as the greatest nation in the world, politically,
economically, and morally. To our
history as a nation of laws, not men. To
stop our infatuation with petty differences and to once more unite as
Americans.
Sadly, Republicans allowed MAGA to become a dirty
word. What they need to do is simply to refuse to allow the Democrats
and the media to use it as a weapon. So always spell out what MAGA actually stands for: Make America Great
Again.
And fully embrace it.
Wrap your collective arms around Make America Great Again. Always use the full wording: never the lazy
acronym. Force the media and Democrats
to say out loud that they are opposed to Make America Great Again, which they
are. Make them admit they don’t think America is that great and can never be
again.
Then use that against them. Broadcast that simple message
everywhere.
The American public is starting to realize how much they
are hated and derided by those in power. And they are. Biden and
the Democrats – and especially the media – don't care how ordinary Americans live
and work, what challenges they face, and how angry they are.
The reality is that most Americans – particularly those
accurately described as the forgotten, by Trump – are embarrassed at the state
of our nation, our schools, and our intentional degradation of our status on
the international stage. They’d like to see us return to being a reliable ally
and a force for good here and abroad, that, in fact, always tried to practice
what we preached.
Most Americans want to feel proud of America again. Proud to
be citizens.
They want to Make America Great Again. Nothing wrong with that.
