Epiphany: MAGA is just the Lost Cause, repackaged.

[AnrothElf]

I think the title says it all.

[Roy Rolling]

1. So many to choose from

But this is what Elf means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

One person’s phony lost cause is another victim’s guerrilla, terrorist attack during peacetime.

[Iris]

2. Yes! Faulkner nailed it - "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

[Bucky]

3. Definitely direct threads tying them together.

There's also the nativist/know-nothing tradition from the North and the vigilante (and Indian murdering) culture from the West. There's other threads of hysterical mob actions in American history that connect to maganess. But that's a keen insight: it's just the same wave hitting a different beach

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. MAGA wants to restore the confederacy and go back to a time where white men controlled everything