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If they can try to turn the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse into a culture war, they’ll go anywhere—hurting their own people in the process.

One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another.

As Covid-19 raged in 2020, President Donald Trump sneered that “bailouts” for Democratic states were unfair to Republicans and mused aloud about using quarantines to protect red states from diseased blue state residents. Last year, when a train hauling toxic chemicals derailed in eastern Ohio, MAGA personalities transformed it into an insidious parable about woke Democratic elites supposedly scheming to abandon the virtuous white heartland.

Now, after the disastrous collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MAGA figures and some GOP politicians are reviving that playbook yet again, in some cases with hateful, conspiratorial gusto. But this time the absurdities are of a next-level sort. That’s because the disaster, by severely hampering Baltimore’s port operations, is impacting regions and industries that rely on the port to export goods. Those include areas sometimes called “MAGA country,” places in the agricultural and industrial heartland throughout the Midwest.

In short, the Baltimore collapse demonstrates with unusual clarity that when it comes to calamities of this sort, we really are all in it together. That, of course, is exactly what the MAGA worldview seeks to deny at all costs—and is once again trying to do here.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Let's not forget that the actual cause of the disaster was most likely poor maintenance/incompetent repair that wasn't caught because of Republican deregulation of oversight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Don’t look too hard into who would have to sign off on funding for a bridge overhaul project either, Annapolis wouldn’t like that if Baltimore didn’t take the fall for them

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

Anything MAGA is about to get worse. It only ever gets worse. Never better.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

These ppl are 1 braincell away from an amoeba

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah. The amoeba leads by 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And in the wrong direction and all!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It's an article of faith with them that anything the government does is going to be terrible, and only private capitalists can succeed.

The idea of a big building project going at a fast clip near Washington DC in an election year is like putting up a 500 foot tall tower to Satan on the White House lawn.

[–] Green13 5 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't have expected better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

How does the water not fall off of the edge of the earth?