If it wasn’t already clear, the anti-Trump right’s resistance to economic and cultural populism embraced by the MAGA movement is predicated almost entirely upon an aesthetic revulsion toward a people whom they consider inferior and inconvenient.
A few days ago, a short video of a pair of late-middle-aged white Americans dancing alongside a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump with moonshine went viral on Twitter after being shared by an account named “Republicans against Trump.”
“Live shot from Magadonia,” the caption reads.
In a large, unkempt outdoor space, trucks, American flags, and piles of yard waste are in clear sight. The couple bobs and jives to a recording of “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” from the Coen Brothers’ “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” What looks to be a medical mobility device appears partially on screen as the woman in her daytime pajamas works her way across the video’s threshold, and the pair’s dog is preoccupied with something it seems to have found on the ground.
The couple is energetic; they’re undeniably excited. We don’t know why, but they’re clearly having a good time. The generally clean cutout of Donald Trump stands in stark contrast to the couple’s rugged appearance and the thick puddles of mud on the ground.
It’s apparent that “Republicans against Trump” — which call themselves “pro-democracy conservative[] Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism” and use their platform to repeat the same braindead, reheated talking points about democracy and decency in an attempt to restore Bush-era establishment
