With the hype of MAGA, we got some dose by President Biden of the anti-MAGA business last week, and it brings up this odd discussion.....why can't President Biden or the national Democratic 'players' invent opposite MAGA....to oppose the Trump 'gimmick'?
In the past six months, this has been on my mind.
I eventually came to this conclusion....there are probably forty different minor counter-MAGA 'gimmicks' at play currently, but nothing really ties them into one central package.
You can't invent a national counter-MAGA that influences working-class Democrats, Hollywood Democrats, Hispanic Democrats, Black Democrats, Puerto Rican Democrats, farmer Democrats, mass urban Democrats, rural Democrats, woke Democrats, environmental Democrats, and so on. So there is some minor theme being played out, and probably only appeals to 5-to-10-percent of the Democratic base itself.
The college debt thing? There's a lot of folks in this group....but if you spread it out across the US....it's not a unifying thing. A fair number of non-college working-class Democrats actually aren't that thrilled of the deal.
The 'soul of America' speech by President Biden last week? Maybe in some weird way....he tried to present a negative slam on MAGA, but then you wondered....where was the counter-MAGA? Basically, he just wanted you to stand up and hype democracy. Thats a sales gimmick with limited potential. If you lined up a hundred odd Democrats....probably a quarter of them were thrilled with the speech and the rest were either shaking their heads or wondering if there was a phase two to the 'soul of America' 'arc'.
So this is the odd part of the landscape.....as badly as there needs to be some counter-MAGA.....no one has yet to figure out how it'd work. It's like inventing a cheesecake which has only 16 calories per slice, and you know it just isn't rocket science.
