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MAGA Fans Took Over the GOP, Will Follow Trump Over the Cliff

Trump clones know how to entertain, not govern

Manny Otiko
4 min readFeb 2, 2021
Photo by Tabitha Kaylee Hawke/Flickr.

I’ve read and written several articles about the decline of the modern-GOP. I also talked to Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a veteran political analyst, about this issue. He said there is no GOP civil war. I doubted his opinion, but he seems to be right. The Republican Party is solidly behind Donald Trump, the worst president in history, and his MAGA clones.

Take, for example, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the deplorable congresswoman from Georgia. She’s an avid conspiracy theorist who believes in every insane idea including California wildfires were started by a Jewish space laser, Muslims invaded the government and mass shootings are staged by the authorities to seize your guns.

Naturally, she also believes in the insane QAnon conspiracy theory. At this stage, Greene is facing a scandal a day and is a PR manager’s nightmare. But she’s shown no signs of backing down. She recently bragged about expecting a favorable call from Trump. And her fellow Republicans seem to show no interest in restraining her. When confronted about her views, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Greene shouldn’t be punished because her views “were different!”

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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