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Every trumper is a N4T.
Mike McCready is the former guitarist for Pearl Jam and host of a podcast called The Hookblast....
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It is genuinely hard for a liberal to win over a die-hard MAGA supporter at this point.
Not because they (MAGAs) can’t reason.
Because they’ve been told a story about liberals for so long that reality doesn’t stand a chance.
I’ll explain.
For years—before Obama even took office—they’ve been fed a steady diet of what “the left really wants”:
Liberals want to destroy the country.
They want to turn your kids gay.
They want to outlaw meat, erase borders, abolish police, and replace your job with vibes.
Every protest is fake. Every crowd is paid. Every crisis is staged.
If I believed all that, I’d hate liberals too. Anyone would.
That’s the point.
What’s actually happening is much simpler—and much darker.
The right doesn’t debate the left. It invents the left.
A cartoon version. A villain. A monster that can’t be reasoned with, only defeated.
And the people doing this aren’t random Twitter weirdos. They’re professionals.
The real paid agitators aren’t the protesters.
They’re the ones on television.
Hannity. Ingraham. Waters. Gutfeld. Levin. Carlson.
Literally paid—very well—to keep their audience angry, afraid, and certain.
Certainty is the product.
That’s why this works so well. Once you accept the premise that “the left wants to destroy America,” everything else becomes obvious. Nuance feels like betrayal. Any correction sounds like propaganda.
Which is why positions can be installed almost overnight.
No one on the right cared about Greenland.
No one was demanding tariffs on allies.
No one was begging to torch NATO or cozy up to autocrats.
Then suddenly, if you don’t see the “common sense” of all this, you’re the idiot.
This isn’t independent thinking. It’s narrative discipline.
Yes, the left has fringe voices too. Every large coalition does.
The difference is that the right takes its fringe, paints the entire Democratic Party with it, then insists the only alternative isn’t center-right governance—but the far right.
Vote GOP or the country dies.
Those are your choices.
And here’s the part that makes this so hard to unwind:
Once someone has lived inside that story long enough, abandoning it doesn’t feel like changing their mind.
It feels like stepping into chaos. It feels like abandoning part of their identity and putting them at odds with their social circle.
So they cling to it.
Defend it.
Double down.
Not because it’s true—but because it’s coherent.
And that’s the quiet tragedy here.
If MAGA voters ever really saw what liberals actually argue about—boring policy tradeoffs, incremental fixes, internal disagreements—they’d be furious.
Not at the left.
At the people who lied to them about it for years.
- Mike McCready
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It is genuinely hard for a liberal to win over a die-hard MAGA supporter at this point.
Not because they (MAGAs) can’t reason.
Because they’ve been told a story about liberals for so long that reality doesn’t stand a chance.
I’ll explain.
For years—before Obama even took office—they’ve been fed a steady diet of what “the left really wants”:
Liberals want to destroy the country.
They want to turn your kids gay.
They want to outlaw meat, erase borders, abolish police, and replace your job with vibes.
Every protest is fake. Every crowd is paid. Every crisis is staged.
If I believed all that, I’d hate liberals too. Anyone would.
That’s the point.
What’s actually happening is much simpler—and much darker.
The right doesn’t debate the left. It invents the left.
A cartoon version. A villain. A monster that can’t be reasoned with, only defeated.
And the people doing this aren’t random Twitter weirdos. They’re professionals.
The real paid agitators aren’t the protesters.
They’re the ones on television.
Hannity. Ingraham. Waters. Gutfeld. Levin. Carlson.
Literally paid—very well—to keep their audience angry, afraid, and certain.
Certainty is the product.
That’s why this works so well. Once you accept the premise that “the left wants to destroy America,” everything else becomes obvious. Nuance feels like betrayal. Any correction sounds like propaganda.
Which is why positions can be installed almost overnight.
No one on the right cared about Greenland.
No one was demanding tariffs on allies.
No one was begging to torch NATO or cozy up to autocrats.
Then suddenly, if you don’t see the “common sense” of all this, you’re the idiot.
This isn’t independent thinking. It’s narrative discipline.
Yes, the left has fringe voices too. Every large coalition does.
The difference is that the right takes its fringe, paints the entire Democratic Party with it, then insists the only alternative isn’t center-right governance—but the far right.
Vote GOP or the country dies.
Those are your choices.
And here’s the part that makes this so hard to unwind:
Once someone has lived inside that story long enough, abandoning it doesn’t feel like changing their mind.
It feels like stepping into chaos. It feels like abandoning part of their identity and putting them at odds with their social circle.
So they cling to it.
Defend it.
Double down.
Not because it’s true—but because it’s coherent.
And that’s the quiet tragedy here.
If MAGA voters ever really saw what liberals actually argue about—boring policy tradeoffs, incremental fixes, internal disagreements—they’d be furious.
Not at the left.
At the people who lied to them about it for years.
- Mike McCready