President Trump reportedly thought his MAGA insurrectionists looked too much like a motley crew of rowdy rednecks. He was pissed. He wanted them to look more organized and uniform, you know, like Hitler’s Brownshirts (aka Storm Troopers).
Trump’s disdain for his Rednecks
Never before in the history of politics has a leader shown such overt disdain for his supporters. Yet, the more disdain Trump shows for them, the more they support him.
That is the curious and notorious relationship he has with his followers. It makes them members of a personality cult, not a political party.
I have expressed bemusement in many commentaries, including just days ago in “Aping Notorious Cult Leader Jim Jones, Trump Invites His MAGA Followers to One Last Rally…?” on January 6, 2020.
Trump wanted Storm Troopers. He got frat boys
Given the above, I couldn’t resist sharing this insider’s account. The Daily Mail published it as breaking news just moments ago:
[I]t was not the mayhem and violence that caused Trump to roar in fury – not the dead bodies, including a Capitol police officer who died from a massive brain bleed after being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher.
Far from it. As a White House source told The Mail on Sunday last night, Trump was ‘apoplectic’ in embarrassment because the ‘white trash’ mob on screen made him look bad.
You have to wonder what Trump expected his MAGA followers to do on Wednesday – after he bellowed marching orders to storm the Capitol. It seems he expected them to don Nazi-esque uniforms, arrange in a military-style formation, and conduct a commando-like assault akin to the Navy Seals.
Instead, he watched a redneck version of Animal House play out on live TV in the People’s House. That would be so hysterical if it were not so serious and dangerous.
But imagine the reaction if that MAGA mob were BLM protesters. We all know that hundreds of them would have left the Capitol in body bags.
Yet, Republicans are already justifying Trump’s treasonous dereliction of duty. Of course, if Obama were still president, these same Republicans would already be clamoring for his impeachment. So would even be baying to put his head in the very noose the MAGA terrorists had for VP Mike Pence.