Hyperpartisan Engagement And Mental Health In MAGA World Today
Another consideration of political psychology and public performance
During July, the polling Firm Echelon Insights “found a rise in the proportion of Trump supporters backing U.S. aid to Ukraine compared with when the president returned to the White House in January,” according to Newsweek. When asked, “Do you support or oppose Donald Trump's decision to continue giving weapons to Ukraine for the conflict with Russia?” no less than “65 percent of Trump voters backed the provision of arms to Ukraine, almost three times the 22 percent who opposed the move.”
Memes and social media posts aimed at inspiring cognitive dissonance in MAGA over Trump’s policy shift fail to disturb the recipients. Calls of hypocrisy fall on deaf ears. Such communications tell us what is on the mind of MAGA’s opposition. They do not affect the minds of any MAGA voter. Rather, the truism that the American political left wants to fall in love with its leaders, while the right simply wants to fall into line with them, has manifested as polling data.
On the left, Democratic electeds — leaders — suffer their lowest public confidence ratings in decades. Liberalism is in tatters, the progressive agenda in ruins. The ‘great vibe shift’ has Sidney Sweeney advertising her great jeans and leftoid TikToktivists melting down in a frenzy of racialized, intersectional psychobabble. MAGA-world is a stark contrast, a relatively anxiety-free zone, because faith that the great orange man has everything under control remains strong.
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