Unmasking MAGA
The Birth of a Monster
Chapters:
Everyone keeps asking the wrong question:
“How did this happen?”
As if Trump was a glitch.
As if January 6th was a surprise.
As if America just suddenly lost its mind.
But this didn’t start in 2015.
It didn’t start with Trump.
And it didn’t start with a red hat.
It started decades ago—with a coalition that never stopped growing, never stopped scheming, and never stopped pretending it wasn’t all working toward this.
This series is about that coalition.
What it really is.
How it came to power.
Why it’s more dangerous than ever.
And how we fight back.
A Different Kind of Enemy
MAGA isn’t a monolith. It’s a machine.
And like any machine, it’s made up of parts—some old, some new, some working in perfect sync, others barely tolerating each other. But all of them pulling in the same direction.
We’re not just facing a man or a moment.
We’re facing an alliance of factions with decades of history, billion-dollar backing, and a propaganda ecosystem that never sleeps.
In Unmasking MAGA, we take them apart—one by one.
We expose their values.
Trace their rise.
Name their leaders.
And shine a light on how they operate.
This is not a rehash of headlines.
This is the anatomy of a movement.
The Eight Factions
We start with the four founding powers—the ones who built the machine:
Fascists — The oldest enemy in American history, reborn in suits and slogans.
Corporatists — The oligarchs who bought our democracy and called it freedom.
Fake Christians — The preachers of power who turned pulpits into weapons.
Warhawks — The empire-builders who exported American dominance—and brought the tools home.
Then we move to the four factions that joined or were absorbed in more recent years:
Libertarians — The true believers in absolute freedom who built a movement—then got coopted.
Conspiracists — The paranoid foot soldiers who became a vanguard.
Red Pillers — The misogynist subculture turned radical pipeline.
Blue-Collar Workers — The betrayed working class, drawn in by grievance and left holding the bag.
Each part of the series breaks them down.
How they think.
What they want.
Why they matter.
And most importantly—how we turn their own fractures into their downfall.
What About the Left?
You will notice something as you read.
We don’t spend much time on the Democratic Party.
We don’t say much about the left.
That’s not an oversight or an endorsement.
It’s because they’ve done so little that needs explaining.
The right built a movement.
The left—especially the institutional Democratic Party—chose to manage decline.
Every time someone tried to build power on the left to stop this monster, the party that was supposed to fight back folded. Or worse—it fought the people doing the fighting.
We’ll get there.
But don’t mistake silence for approval.
Sometimes silence is the loudest indictment of all.
The Strategy
We’re not just here to just understand them.
We’re here to defeat them.
That means not just cataloging their crimes—but breaking their alliances. Exploiting wedge issues. Creating a sense of betrayal within each group. And offering off-ramps to those still capable of walking away.
This isn’t just political analysis.
It’s strategic deconstruction.
Because if we want to stop this authoritarian wave—we need to know where it’s coming from, what it’s made of, and how to dismantle it from the inside out.
Welcome to Unmasking MAGA.
Let’s begin.
This is great! I hope the DNC etc. get this. I think their problem is that they can’t believe all this is really happening. They’re normal, educated, non-extremists who just want to implement policies that make sense. They don’t have this kind of radical ideology. Hopefully it will sink in soon that this is not normal bipartisan wrangling but a fight to the death to save the country and democracy.
Excelent exposition. I am working my way through the published articles for the second time.
I understand your premises and context for the rise of MAGA are basically centered on the internal forces (powers) in America over time.
How do you view the influence and relevance to MAGAs development of external forces such as 1930s Germany, cold war era, and more recently Russia.