Nothing triggers a Trumpist quite like saying, “America is actually doing great.”
It’s been years since I was involved in a good old-fashioned Twitter spat. So imagine my surprise when I became embroiled in one on Holy Wednesday. This wasn’t just some rando troll, either.: “It's a GREAT time to be alive. So why are so many Americans depressed and convinced that things have never been worse ?!?”“3 wars,” “An open border,” “An open attack on political enemies,” as the accomplishments of the sinister “The Biden Regime.
I have casually known Grenell for almost a decade, and I can’t recall him ever publicly criticizing me. So I was curious: Why did this particular tweet spark this pushback at this particular time? After all, Grenell is an important, and presumably busy, guy. What is more, the notion that modern Americans are too gloomy is, by now, a trite observation. The Harvard University professor Steven Pinker has beento advance the notion that things have never been worse.
Case in point: the forever wars that Grenell apparently thinks we are fighting. Now, I’m old enough to remember thefor Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and by waiving sanctions on a Russian company overseeing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline Biden invited Russia’s attack on Ukraine. is, shall we say, convenient.
But this is all a distraction. MAGA isn’t just a message on a red hat, it’s a mantra. And to acknowledge the ways America is currently great is to admit that the country does not, in fact, need a fulminating strongman like Trump to save us from the ashes of our once proud homeland. As I have learned, saying something like “It’s great to be alive and in America right now” constitutes fighting words. That’s because Donald Trumphis MAGA followers to believe America is screwed. The danger, of course, is that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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