Why MAGA Republicans are so angry?

[kentuck]

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	Because they understand how they have been used?
	0 (0%)
	Because Democrats mock them as naive, ignorant, and part of a cult?
	1 (3%)
	Because they got caught and have been shown to be complicit in tearing down our country?
	1 (3%)
	Because they are in denial?
	3 (8%)
	Because they are bloviating fools?
	2 (5%)
	All of the above?
	26 (67%)
	Other?
	6 (15%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Because without access to power and money, they are pathetic peons.

And they know it.

Vicariously living through Trump, they had the illusion they were in charge.

[kentuck]

3. That makes sense.

[Claustrum]

2. They live in a bubble that is always stroking some kind of outrage.

They are always in fear and anger. That's what triggers them. Everything is unfair for them. You have to be drawn to that kind of emotion to be a republican nowadays.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

9. A lot of them are white small business owners

Went to Florida or Georgia or Texas to get rich

Resent the government because the payroll tax and workers comp and regulation are keeping him from making real money like the big boys.

Complains bitterly that employee wages are bleeding him dry while leaning on his new Dodge Ram pickup that he's using to tow his boat.

Grew up idolizing Donald Trump. Loves the idea that he trades out for a new model wife every 15 years. Thinks Donald Trump supports Christian values.

Says he'd have moved to Mexico if Hillary Clinton had been elected. Loves going to Cabo every chance he gets. Fully supports a border wall and wants every Mexican in America shipped back. By Mexican, he means anyone who speaks Spanish.

[Brenda]

16. Well done, except for the bit about Mexico

Must be a West Coast thing to go to Cabo but the Southeastern MAGAs would NEVER go to Mexico (well, except Cruz). If they're monied, they go to Florida/Bahamas/Jamaica. If really monied they do the Limbaugh thing and go to Cuba, Paris, wherever they pretend to hate in public but vacation at in private.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

23. The Floridians go to Cancun/Cozumel on the cruise ships.

Yes - also to Naussau, Ocho Rios, and a number of private islands.

[Walleye]

4. Because they hate the United States. And everything we stand for

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Their Lord & Savior is being threatened.

[LonePirate]

6. They have been brainwashed to be angry about their lot in life and lied to about who is doing it.

Almost all of them consider themselves to be good working people but they have gotten nowhere in life or their status in life is threatened with imminent loss because the 1%ers have used lies and fearmongering to shift blame away from themselves to a host of people on the left. For MAGA, it’s easier to process blame among people they see every day rather than the real perpetrators squirreled away in their gated estates and penthouse suites, never to be seen by the common folk.

[hatrack]

7. Because their default setting is "Enraged" . . .

Without anger, they'd have no reason to get out of bed.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. Because in their eyes libs won and they lost even though Biden is doing the very same thing

[Johonny]

10. Because they were taught the color of their

Skin made them essentially better than other people no matter how stupid, poor, uneducated, or foul they are. They were taught they were moral just because they believed in Christ and not because of any action they've done sans handing over cash to conartists. It's painfully obvious to them, this magic world is going away and they hate it.

[Maeve]

11. Anger is a powerful drug

And being a victim is a powerful persona. Once you convince yourself you are a victim and you anger is righteous, anything contradicting that is an assault on your very existence. After a while there is no other core person...just anger and resentment inhabiting a shell
It's very hard to come back from that

[Hortensis]

21. Yup. This. Breeding grievance and resentment in people

to weaponize and direct them politically is a terrible, terrible crime against them as people.

Further, with repetition, the brain helpfully develops routine pathways that interpret information to negate positives and come to negative conclusions.

Victims are helping train themselves to be habitually unhappy and resentful.

We see the results all over, not just on the right. How would people come back from that?

Dreadful.

[markie]

12. merely

because they are fools... simple as that... they are too foolish to be experiencing the other factors suggested

[Norbert]

13. This may have been their best chance to have full control of the country

[AKwannabe]

14. All of the above is out

Because of first choice.

They will never understand

[JHB]

15. Practice, practice, practice

[Solly Mack]

17. Default mode.

[GoodRaisin]

18. Racism, mainly.

Racism stokes anger, and they have been propagandized to that fear.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. TFG supporters are idiots which is why they like TFG

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[grantcart]

20. Because they have faced an unrelenting existential threat for 4 decades

Most of their most precious myths have been destroyed by science and reason and now they "cling to their Bibles and guns".

[andym]

22. Think Archie Bunker who would be a MAGA-Don today

mad about social change, loss of status and especially about perceived loss of his "way of life and values." He loved Nixon, was prejudiced against everyone. He would certainly love Trump. Norman Lear based Archie on his own father to some extent. Keep in mind that many who were similar to Archie loved Archie.
Guys like Archie are the key audience for DeSantis as well.