https://www.alternet.org/how-right-wing-convinces-itself-liberals-are-evilThis did not begin with Donald Trump. The modern Republican Party may be particularly apt to push conspiracy theories to rationalize its complicity with a staggeringly corrupt administration, but this is an extension of, not a break from, a much longer history. Since its very beginning, in the 1950s, members of the modern conservative movement have justified bad behavior by convincing themselves that the other side is worse. One of the binding agents holding the conservative coalition together over the course of the past half century has been an opposition to liberalism, socialism, and global communism built on the suspicion, sometimes made explicit, that there’s no real difference among them.
Whether Trump is rascist or not is not the most significant thing IMO. That the right-wing has a rascist agenda is also not the most significant thing IMO.
I think Trump supporters would have a difficult time proving how non-rascist he is. So, instead of challenging, you could just put up something that may convince someone, yet, nothing appears?
What troubles me the most about Trump is how non-linear he is. Republicans should disown him, yet they want the blood flowing to them, so they don't. He is a mad man. Do I have to prove that? Don't any of you listen to him? (I don't much, but what I've heard makes me rather sure. I didn't listen much to Obama either, BTW.)
MAGA, like when it was more rascist, I suppose. Enough name calling. I don't like how Trump is unraveling our regulatory structure. It is ultimately anti-democratic. He is wrecking established international relations and not replacing them with anything substantial. I don't see the MAGA part, nor where it will come from, so I don't believe any good can come from this.
But, all of this is immaterial to falling for the partisan divide. It is a way of thinking, a way of handling fears and desires, a way of dividing people. I don't like it. It is not the people, it is the beliefs (false in my view).