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MAGA ideals, as they are espoused by MAGA politicians making actual legislative proposals, are not mainstream ideals. Just because Trump won electorally in 2016 does not mean everybody who voted for Trump agrees with the MAGA platform.

The same is true for the far-left. Just because Biden won electorally in 2020 does not mean everybody who voted for Biden agrees with the New Green Deal, or the Democratic Socialists.

What's radical about MAGA supporters and politicians is their willingness to burn it all down rather than submit to the will of the majority. You don't see hard left progressives gleefully holding up military promotions and must-pass budget bills, and then bragging about the chaos it is causing on Steve Bannon's morning show. That's what makes MAGA more radical than any other faction in U.S. political discourse: they're perfectly willing to force a constitutional crisis, up to and including dissolving the Union of States, rather than tolerate policies that the majority of Americans agree with being written into law.

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