Not being a holy person, I cannot pronounce on Pompeo's Christian commitment. My experience is that there are no proof texts from scriptures and all such citations are appeals to personal authority.
My personal belief is that the ruling class is the Deep State. The notion of a separate Deep State is a way to deny this. The closely related obfuscation, the PMC, where PMC is usually code for woke, omits that MAGA attacks on the Deep State's government bureaucrats are vigorously pursued by the likes of Trump, Hegseth, Musk, Bessent, Lutnick, Bondi, et al. MAGA is patriotic above all, so far as I can tell, not particularly anti-war (pacifism is a woke thing.) What MAGA didn't want was to sacrifice their taxes (and lives) to save foreigners, much less promote globalist woke. Again, they are patriots and if they are told by their hero Trump this war or that is for them instead of for foreigners or woke, they will believe. Even economic war calls for patriotic sacrifice. And, they are Christians who accept that God gave His Chosen People the Holy Land, end of story. MAGA in my personal experience is about loyalty to Trump, not about policy, which no one really knows about, as they either cannot believe Trump or simply refuse to believe he meant things he did say.
Things may be different for progressive MAGA but I haven't met them, any more than I've met people hassling me about pronouns.
A very thoughtful article that lays out the contradiction within MAGA. I would suggest, however, that the contradiction between the progressive MAGA working class and the Teutonic elements is not yet resolved within the Trump administration. The former may ultimately prevail.
Not being a holy person, I cannot pronounce on Pompeo's Christian commitment. My experience is that there are no proof texts from scriptures and all such citations are appeals to personal authority.
My personal belief is that the ruling class is the Deep State. The notion of a separate Deep State is a way to deny this. The closely related obfuscation, the PMC, where PMC is usually code for woke, omits that MAGA attacks on the Deep State's government bureaucrats are vigorously pursued by the likes of Trump, Hegseth, Musk, Bessent, Lutnick, Bondi, et al. MAGA is patriotic above all, so far as I can tell, not particularly anti-war (pacifism is a woke thing.) What MAGA didn't want was to sacrifice their taxes (and lives) to save foreigners, much less promote globalist woke. Again, they are patriots and if they are told by their hero Trump this war or that is for them instead of for foreigners or woke, they will believe. Even economic war calls for patriotic sacrifice. And, they are Christians who accept that God gave His Chosen People the Holy Land, end of story. MAGA in my personal experience is about loyalty to Trump, not about policy, which no one really knows about, as they either cannot believe Trump or simply refuse to believe he meant things he did say.
Things may be different for progressive MAGA but I haven't met them, any more than I've met people hassling me about pronouns.
A very thoughtful article that lays out the contradiction within MAGA. I would suggest, however, that the contradiction between the progressive MAGA working class and the Teutonic elements is not yet resolved within the Trump administration. The former may ultimately prevail.