MAGA and RUSSIA: A Tragic Love Story

When self-professed American patriots get in bed with a murderous dictator

Republicans need to take off the big red hats and retire them.

That whole MAGA nonsense has reached its expiration date. 
All their flag-waving histrionics and their hand-wringing anthem outrage have proven to be nothing but fake news.
The America First chest-bumping and God Bless America showy piety they’ve spent the past five years peddling, looks largely ridiculous at this point.

They have been fully exposed.

When an American President stands alongside a murderous dictator and declares to trust that man more than American Intelligence, more than our public servants across the aisle, more than our nation’s Press, he’s stepped out into the stark light of day and revealed himself.

When he is more willing to collaborate with one of our greatest adversaries; a man guilty of poisonings and murders for hire and war crimes—than with American troops on the ground or Democrats in the House or shooting victims here at home he’s declared who he is.

And when American citizens and politicians refuse to name it all as treasonous, when they choose to remain silent, when they pretend you don’t see it—they declare who they are.

We see it. The world sees it.

Oh sure, we expected as much all along. Throughout the 2016 campaign we could see that with each passing day Republican voters and politicians started to sell off their souls in tiny little parcels. It was sickening to behold.

With every vile word about women they excused, with every act of thuggery they overlooked, with every bit of race-bait they gobbled up, with every hate crime they turned away from, with every vicious Tweet they normalized—they gradually lost the plot of America and humanity. Eight years later it’s worse than we imagined it could be.

Lots of things kept falling to the wayside in these people along the way to his “Making America Great Again”: decency, compassion, honesty, goodness.

When we brought these things to their attention, they tried to wrap it all in Old Glory apple pie and fireworks—but we had a hunch that all that past greatness they said they wanted to get back to was really just whiteness. 

We thought it was just racism and nationalism.
We figured it was Islamophobia and misogyny.
We suspected it was weaponized religion.
We imagined it was homophobia and privilege.
We knew it was blind hatred of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
That was all bad enough.

We never dreamed that in their lust for Supreme Court seats, women’s rights rollbacks, NRA contributions, and for some feeling of retribution against the world or the Libs—that they’d do this.

We never thought our neighbors and church friends and family members would ratify sedition and defend insurrection and support a dictator in a brutal war. Honestly, that’s been a shock.

But it’s clear now. We know what we’re dealing with. When you side with the Kremlin, you’ve sorta said all you have to say, haven’t you? There’s no gray area there, no red, white and blue veneer of patriotism that can make this right, no star-spangled distraction to parade in front of it all.

Millions of Americans died to protect us from the very sickness Donald Trump is willingly getting into bed with—and the fact that they don’t give a damn about it makes them reckless and irresponsible, and yeah it makes them traitors-by-association.

If MAGAs are okay with what’s with been unearthed over the last few years and what’s unfolding right now, they may as well swap those Stars and Stripes for a hammer and sickle because that’s where we are now. Trade that MAGA hat for an ushanka because it’s a more fitting covering.

MAGA Republicans may as well come clean now.
They may as well just tell us they just want the power grab.
Tell us they want Roe V Wade overturned.
Tell us they want a white Evangelical theocracy.
Tell us they just wanted to win at any cost. 
Tell us they want LGBTQ people and immigrants eradicated.
Tell us they just really don’t like brown and black people.
We’ll believe them.

They just had better not say that they love both Donald Trump and America anymore.

They’re making it perfectly clear:

One of those things simply isn’t true.

Sadly, we know which one.