I am truly trying to understand something, so I hope you will not take this as an attack. What are the "values and objectives" that the MAGA movement espouses? Is it lower taxes, less regulation, pro-life, traditional values? Or is there something I'm missing because if those traditional conservative goals are at the heart of it, then why is Trump the "only possible current Presidential candidate" who can stand up for them? "Draining the swamp" is rather vague - what does it mean in practical terms? And are traditional conservatives like Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney, who have spent their careers pursuing those kind of policies considered persona non grata by your movement?
You are asking a lot of questions. I will try and help you understand.
Several years ago, the Tea Party Movement started in the Obama administration, fueled by Washington's failure to even recognize our debt. It grew to influence on many issues involving DC's intransigence to the will of the people and it's protecting, isolating, gathering and consolidating power into the hands of an elite few. The Tea Party was attacked, no surprise, as being 'racist' by the actual racists who use the race card against anything and everything that opposes them. it kinda faded away, as the MSM ignored it. But the people, like me, who are very much concerned about the consolidation of political and governmental power in Washington did NOT go away. I was not convinced to support trump in 2016. I believed he was a liberal Hollywood type that got the idea to masquerade as a republican in order to satisfy his massive ego. But he got enough support, because of his name recognition and mostly because Hillary was extremely off-putting and over confident.
But then I paid attention to what he actually did. He, unlike most other republicans, actually tried to carry out on the things he campaigned on. That, in a nutshell, is the battle inside the republican party right now. Most of the repubs say one thing when they campaign, but when they get to Washington, they cave in to the will of the swamp. They campaign saying one thing, then they do the exact opposite. These creatures are called RINOs or Uniparty members. We, the MAGA - Tea Party wing of the repubs, are trying to rid the party of those types, that always let the swamp get its way. I do not identify as a republican, but I 'caucus' with them, because there's no place I would ever be allowed to occupy in the democrat party, since they have gone whole-hog communist in the past couple of decades.
What do we want? Lot's of things. The Congress is supposed to have a budget. When was the last time it actually did? The Uniparty always avoids that by passing CRs because they are deathly afraid of being blamed for shutting down the government. So they don't do their jobs. We want to have a country. We need to have borders that are defended. When did we last have them? Why don't our elected officials do their jobs and give us a workable and enforcable immigration system, like we used to have? Because the power base in Washington doesn't want one. Who actually governs us? Who makes all these rules and regulations that are constantly creeping into our lives? No more incandescent light bulbs? We have to go to electric cars, even though we're not equipped to power them and they can only go 200 miles at a time? The Congress doesn't make these rules. Not the people we elect, but the hundreds of thousands of little emperors that are appointed and can never be fired that are the main creatures of the swamp. That is our main enemy. It needs to be broken and decentralized.
Trump is the only one who understands what the real threat is, and he's the only one who has enough political capital to overcome the cheating and manipulation that has taken root in our election system. It is not just machine and counting vulnerabilities. It is the flaunting and outright violations of election law. If you really want to understand, watch the John Eastman video I posted earlier. We need to stop this now, or we will lose our country as we have known it. We will turn into Venezuela. Preventing that is what our movement is about.
I don't expect you to understand, krox, or even be curious enough to look into it. I'm afraid you shown that. I think you just want to see my answer so you can throw mud at it. But I always have hope.
