🔗 Bullet Points: “We’re in Danger” edition - by Dave Karpf:

The intra-MAGA drama is akin to the fanbase of a hit show, loudly griping about the season 6 finale online. It’s like an outraged fanbase, insisting they are done with this team for good now after a disappointing draft pick.

It’s all performative. None of it has staying power. In the long term, none of it is real.

Exactly. Anyone who thinks that some issue like this is going to fracture or peel away the MAGA base is fooling themselves. Stop wishcasting and fantasizing about this stuff; get out and do something instead.

Also, I think Dave’s take here that MAGA is better thought of as a fandom than as a political coalition is right. Like a fandom, it has its own internal mythology, characters, and story arcs, as well as fan theories and fanfic. And also like a fandom, there are whole constellations of media, analysis, and exegesis that circle it, spewing out endless reams of speculation, predictions, and explanations about What It All Means.