The mission of MAGA is to do to all our institutions what occurred in the American church. We are replacing doctors and public health experts with the equivalent of televangelist and megachurch prosperity gospel drifters. And we are doing the same with education, environmental regulation, communications, trade, securities, social security, internal revenue, etc. It’s what we’ve done to school board elections, city councils, and every part of local democracy as well.
In every corner of our government, we are replacing expertise, local knowledge, and dedicated public service with something that looks slick, compels the ignorant, and is designed to turn us from a model of participatory communities to mass culture consumption. It will enrich a few and impoverish us all– spiritually and economically.