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Let’s be blunt. It can be hard to voice uncomfortable truths, but here is one: most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term.
MAGA hears that and thinks immediately of illegal immigration. But actually, the problem is bigger. It extends to the many native-born people who may technically be citizens of the United States but are no longer (if they ever were) Americans. They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.
Practically speaking, it might be too late. There is almost nothing left to conserve. What is actually required now is a recovery, or even a refounding, of America as it was long and originally understood but which now exists only in the hearts and minds of a minority of citizens.
The 2028 election will be do or die. A GOP presidency will be pedal-to-the-metal on their entire agenda, plus items few of us have yet even imagined.. Nor is even that the worst. It will be coupled with a level of vindictive persecution against resistance and dissent hitherto not seen in the supposedly liberal West. We see this already in the censorship practiced by the new mainstream media. The shameless propaganda tidal wave. The personal destruction campaigns. We see it inthe flagrant use of the DOJ to torment political opponents, the gaslighting denials, and the collective shrug by everyone else.
MAGA hears that and thinks immediately of illegal immigration. But actually, the problem is bigger. It extends to the many native-born people who may technically be citizens of the United States but are no longer (if they ever were) Americans. They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.
Practically speaking, it might be too late. There is almost nothing left to conserve. What is actually required now is a recovery, or even a refounding, of America as it was long and originally understood but which now exists only in the hearts and minds of a minority of citizens.
The 2028 election will be do or die. A GOP presidency will be pedal-to-the-metal on their entire agenda, plus items few of us have yet even imagined.. Nor is even that the worst. It will be coupled with a level of vindictive persecution against resistance and dissent hitherto not seen in the supposedly liberal West. We see this already in the censorship practiced by the new mainstream media. The shameless propaganda tidal wave. The personal destruction campaigns. We see it inthe flagrant use of the DOJ to torment political opponents, the gaslighting denials, and the collective shrug by everyone else.
