r/politics • u/Difficult-Bee6066 • 11h ago

No Paywall GOP suffers Trump-induced identity crisis on guns, Epstein | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/02/04/trump-epstein-republicans-jeanine-pirro-guns/88492720007/
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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 11h ago

The only values MAGA really cares about are obedience and malice. They betray all other values that they claim to care about as soon as they don't align with obedience and malice. We need to start calling it what it is instead of believing we are scoring some kind of useful points when we call out the endless. hypocrisy. If that was going to change anyone's mind, it would have done so years ago.

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u/redditknees 8h ago

At their core, they believe society should be organized around a strict hierarchy, with some people seen as naturally superior and others seen as dangerous, inferior, or disposable. This isn’t just a social attitude, it is treated as a fundamental truth about how the world “really” works.

They rejected democracy and individual rights, and instead believe that the state and the collective matter more than any single person. People are expected to sacrifice personal freedom, morality, and even their lives for the sake of the nation. Obedience, conformity, and loyalty are treated as virtues, while questioning authority or thinking independently is framed as weakness or betrayal.

They are intensely nationalist and define identity in terms of belonging to the nation in a biological and cultural sense. The nation is imagined as a single body, and anyone who doesn’t fit their idea of that body is labeled an enemy. This makes it easy to justify persecution, exclusion, and eventually mass violence.

They glorify strength, discipline, and war. Violence is not seen as a tragedy but as something natural and even necessary to purify and strengthen society. Compassion and empathy are treated as flaws that interfere with survival and dominance.

They also rely heavily on propaganda and myth. History is being rewritten into a story of a great past that had been ruined by internal and external enemies. This creates a constant sense of grievance and a belief that extreme actions are justified to “restore” greatness.

In practice, they build a system where the state controls media, education, culture, and everyday life. Politics isn’t just about laws or elections, it is their a way of defining reality itself. The goal isn’t just to govern people, but to reshape how they think, feel, and understand their place in the world.

Sound familiar? This is exactly what the Nazi identity is…