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Reagan introduced ideological disdain for the state into the core of Republican politics. MAGA extends that to all impersonal institutions.

Alan Johnson

@acjay.com

29 May

MAGA despises the bureaucratic state, but also the media, universities, big business, nonprofits, etc.

Alan Johnson

@acjay.com

29 May

Trump 1 was a disaster, so the pendulum swung back to Biden and the institutionalism he represented. And MAGA-oriented people HATED it.

Alan Johnson

@acjay.com

MAGA has a strong preference for personal leadership and idolizes people who exert personal control. This is why MAGA and the billionaire class are so cozy.

29/5/26, 12:31 am0 reposts1 like

Alan Johnson

@acjay.com

29 May

This is also why Biden was so despised. He was the opposite of visible, personal leadership.

Alan Johnson

@acjay.com

29 May

More than a decade ago @chrislhayes.bsky.social identified institutional failure as a crisis in his book, Twilight of the Elites. MAGA is the consequence.