Could this be the year where MAGA fades away?
Our guest columnist says it's time for these hard-right dolts to step aside ...
This is a guest post from Jerry Rocha, a stand-up comedian and new local. You can follow him on Instagram here.
Could this be the year? Could these upcoming mid-terms be the elections where America, with an overwhelming number of votes, tells MAGA to eat shit?
So many signs are pointing to it, from polling to the numbers experts on cable news all saying their data is showing a blue wave, maybe even a historic one, is on the way.
I want to believe it, but I worry those number-crunching experts on cable news know just about as much as the gambling experts who have taken up all the talking head retail space on every cable sports outlet (By the way, it won’t ever stop there with the gambling bullshit. Sports was just the way in).
I’m sure the action on the mid-terms will be a rabid frenzy of bets and the smart money should be the fascists getting their asses kicked. My fear is that should have been the outcome every time a fascist asshole is on a ballot, and yet we’ve seen them win time and time again.
It’s so disheartening. Hillary should’ve beaten his ass (electorally). Biden should’ve beaten his ass by a much bigger margin than he did. Kamala should’ve beaten his ass, and instead there that motherfucker is, exposed as a sexual assaulter, exposed as a pedophile and all that’s happened is many of us seeing our dumbest friend or relative we have now making excuses for sexual assault and pedophilia.
How the fuck are they still okay with this shit?
It does seem that, thankfully, a few are peeling off, but what about the people who haven’t? The non-billionaires (not even close in so many cases) who are in no way benefitting from this asshole being in control … why are they still there?
If anyone has seen the brilliant John Sayles film Lone Star, then I’m sure you remember the cameo by Frances McDormand. If not, go watch it now. When I first saw the film, her character, Bunny, I thought was comic relief, a divorced woman who lived alone and whose home decorations and whose clothing and whose conversations seemed to all be centered around the Dallas Cowboys. Having been born and raised in Dallas, I just saw what I figured to be a funny caricature of a mega fan.
Then I saw the movie again and I had a completely different take on Bunny. What I initially thought as comic relief, I soon saw as the complete opposite. This was a tragic tragic individual who had no way to deal with her trauma and instead poured her existence into a football team.
Now, every time I see MAGA, I think of Bunny. It’s sad, knowing that there are people out in the world so lost and that damaged that they fall for that orange pile of shit and then say we’re the “deranged” ones when all the negative things he does are exposed.
It’s sad, but it’s also difficult to have empathy. We all have trauma, however, most of us don’t deal with that trauma in taking solace that people different than us are hurting.
And yet, it’s still paramount that some of them have pulled away from MAGA and more continue to pull away. So as much as I talk shit, I will also be happy to let any MAGA on the fence I happen to come across know how nice the water is on this side of the pool.
I will also hope the apathetic mostly left-leaning “both sides suck” political hipsters understand that if there was ever a mid-term election to show up to, this is the one.
The experts are saying the mid-terms will favor the Liberals. I’m cautiously optimistic. I suppose it helps that this is easily the worst president and administration we’ve ever had, and while I will sit here and hope that a big blue wave will be the case, I will also make sure I get my ass out there to vote. I will talk to everyone about how important it will be for them to go vote as well.
Although my cancer fight has left me mostly bedridden at the moment, I at least promise that my daily calls to the local GameStops will include some semblance of “please go and vote” talk.
The chances any MAGA decide to have a face turn and reject the evil is so unlikely, it would be if Bunny suddenly became a Washington Commanders fan, but in Rocky IV, the Russians in the middle of massive fight in Russia between one of their own and Rocky, started cheering for Rocky.
So… hope?
I do have faith that a change (for the better) is on the way.
I have no idea how many times these MAGA pukes have been on a ballot and won, but if it’s the third time, or seventh time or whatever time, let’s just hurry up and get to the time where it’s a charm.
While I do think there’s a real chance of taking the House, and a nontrivial shot at the Senate, it still won’t amount to a supermajority. That means no clear path to removing a criminal president or holding Supreme Court justices accountable for their role in enabling this moment.
And even if this particular movement is weakened, the underlying forces aren’t going away. Authoritarian politics doesn’t disappear; it adapts. The MAGA brand may be damaged, but like the Tea Party before it, it will likely rebrand and return in a new form, carried forward by ambitious politicians eager to inherit the fascist mantle.
This is not a single-election-cycle problem. It’s a generational struggle, and we’re up against well-funded, highly strategic operators. Meanwhile, defenders of democracy are relying heavily on grassroots passion and public will, but our leadership too often comes across as reactive, feckless, unfocused, and, frankly, weak.
If Democrats take the House, and hopefully the Senate, it cannot be business as usual. This moment demands backbone, discipline, and long-term strategic thinking. Without that, we risk squandering whatever opportunity we gain. God help us all.