Thanks for the heads up, Staff.

Let's try to have civil, thoughtful responses.

What are your understanding of their policy positions?
What are their goals?
What policies do they have versus your counter policy position on same subject?
And serious discussion, Bandit. Lolz.

Here's what it means to me, in a nutshell:
Reviving the American Dream. Being that shining light for the rest of the world.

More detail:
Governance by a moral and ethical people. I'm not talking about failures or sin in one's personal life here. We all have those. I'm talking about honest stewardship in the public sector. Eliminate, as much as possible, government corruption. Eliminate foreign influence.
Releasing the American people, unburdened by excessive regulation and taxation, to purse life, liberty and happiness. Bring back American manufacturing and jobs. As free people we have shown we can dominate.
Physically cleaning up our shared public domain and incarcerate those unwilling to live by our laws.
Eliminate politics in our education system. Get back to reading, writing, arithmetic and real science.

The above forms a solid foundation, in my opinion, for the prosperous advancement of our society.

samurai_science said:

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There is no such thing as MAGA. Start with that.

People vote R or they vote D. Some of the ones that voted for him (and would again) voted because he ran as a Republican, some voted because he is Trump, some disagree with some things he supports (but would still vote R) and some agree with everything he does. Who cares.

Its a stupid term because I would assume everyone wants America to be great?


Calling someone MAGA is daft. Its possible to be an R and not like everything he does and still want America to be great.

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Okay, what is your version of a great America?
Paint a picture.

HaroldShipmanAg said:

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Texas12&0 said:

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samurai_science said:

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There is no such thing as MAGA. Start with that.

People vote R or they vote D. Some of the ones that voted for him (and would again) voted because he ran as a Republican, some voted because he is Trump, some disagree with some things he supports (but would still vote R) and some agree with everything he does. Who cares.

Its a stupid term because I would assume everyone wants America to be great?


Calling someone MAGA is daft. Its possible to be an R and not like everything he does and still want America to be great.

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Okay, what is your version of a great America?
Paint a picture.

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seems like you are baiting him into an answer....Its a political slogan like Hope and Change.....nothing more

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Nope, I'm genuinely curious.

For example, the Hope and Change slogan plus the fundamentally change America thing. I never bought into that. For one, I didn't see anything wrong with Americas fundamentals other than we needed to get back closer to them.

MAGA itself is a campaign marketing slogan, just like Huey Long's "Every Man a King", Johnson's "Great Society", or Reagan's "Morning in America". It signaled the Trump campaign's desire to differentiate itself from the Obama and Biden administrations and a signal that Obama and Biden had been leading the nation in a less great direction.

Substantively, it means whatever Trump wants it to mean to support his decisions.

TAMUallen said:

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MAGA means nothing to me other than being a Trump supporter and I LOVE the fact it pisses liberals, commies and socialists off so much.

The latter part is the only reason I'll proudly wear a MAGA hat around

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This.

Claude! said:

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MAGA itself is a campaign marketing slogan, just like Huey Long's "Every Man a King", Johnson's "Great Society", or Reagan's "Morning in America". It signaled the Trump campaign's desire to differentiate itself from the Obama and Biden administrations and a signal that Obama and Biden had been leading the nation in a less great direction.

Substantively, it means whatever Trump wants it to mean to support his decisions.

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This.

It was a great idea. Don't agree with one of his policies? Well then you must not want to make America great then do you.

txags92 said:

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2) It is a term used by the left to homogenize a non-homogenous population of voters mainly for the purpose of creating a strawman to attack with simplistic arguments that don't apply to most of the non-homogenous population group they are targeting.

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You said it much better than me...

So about two left of MAGA and now OP wants to know the meaning...come on man.

The left uses it as a pejorative the way we use 'woke'.

Apparently, it's subject to change.

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Its a political slogan like Hope and Change.....nothing more

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Incorrect. Unlike Hope and Change, Trump has actually put his money where his mouth was on changing several policies (not everything he promised, but several) that are better for America than before he came along.

Obama's policies didn't provide any hope or positive change like he promised in his campaign speeches. It was just the growth of govt and enriching himself along with the people that served under him. There was no substance to it.

Even with Trump's shortcomings, many of his policies have at least had the foundation on wanting to make things better for the United States and making the rest of the world pay their fair share for a change.

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Calling someone MAGA is daft. Its possible to be an R and not like everything he does and still want America to be great.

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EOT!

I have never seen a definition of MAGA. My view of it is supporting traditional values and putting the interests of the USA and its citizens before all other peoples and countries. That also recognizes the fact we haven't done that as federal/state/local governments in a long, long time...thus the word AGAIN.

But that's just my definition...

samurai_science said:

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There is no such thing as MAGA. Start with that.

People vote R or they vote D. Some of the ones that voted for him (and would again) voted because he ran as a Republican, some voted because he is Trump, some disagree with some things he supports (but would still vote R) and some agree with everything he does. Who cares.

Its a stupid term because I would assume everyone wants America to be great?


Calling someone MAGA is daft. Its possible to be an R and not like everything he does and still want America to be great.

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You would assume wrong.

Also, there is a huge degree of variance on what people consider "great". A whole lot of people think "great" means full government control of everything, universal income, DEI, somehow I owe them something for an act that happened 200 years ago that neither I perpetrated nor they were the victim of, open borders, everybody and their uncle can vote (multiple times at that), essentially zero punishment for criminals, elimination of all LEO's and a host of other things that I find abhorrent.

Great means a wholly different thing to me.

MAGA = Trump supporter. It was his campaign slogan. MAGA represents Trump's populist platform, whether it's actually conservative or not.

However, I'd say that it's now morphed beyond mere populism into whatever Trump wants it to be. He can change his mind on something or go back on something he's previously said and that becomes part of the newly revised MAGA platform.

Jeeper79 said:

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MAGA = Trump supporter. It was his campaign slogan. MAGA represents Trump's populist platform, whether it's actually conservative or not.

However, I'd say that it's now morphed beyond mere populism into whatever Trump wants it to be. He can change his mind on something or go back on something he's previously said and that becomes part of the newly revised MAGA platform.

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Case in point for my #2 definition:

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2) It is a term used by the left to homogenize a non-homogenous population of voters mainly for the purpose of creating a strawman to attack with simplistic arguments that don't apply to most of the non-homogenous population group they are targeting.

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Canvasback said:

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Being a puppet to Trump. If Trump says frog, Maga jumps.

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and there is the response OP wants.

I believe MAGA is an acronym for 'Make America Great Again'. That is it. Nothing more.

So you're good being a liberal, as long as it makes the other liberals you don't like get mad about it

MaroonStain said:

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I believe MAGA is an acronym for 'Make America Great Again'. That is it. Nothing more.

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It's just a campaign slogan to me. I doesn't mean anything. But I've also never considered America not great. I've never been able to honestly look at my life and blame America or the government for my shortcomings. The only people I know that cling to slogans like trumps are the same kind of folks that cling to obamas "yes we can". They have some beef with america or Uncle Sam that they blame their failures on. Personally, America has gotten better literally every year to me, regardless of who was president. Just my outlook. It's just another campaign slogan.

HaroldShipmanAg said:

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Canvasback said:

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Being a puppet to Trump. If Trump says frog, Maga jumps.

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and there is the response OP wants.

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Wrong, again, Harold. I'm looking for one's vision of a great or better America.

Edit: And how to get there.

Doesn't everyone want America to be great again? I mean other than democrats and socialists and communists, but I repeat myself

Doesn't mean anything. It's like all other campaign slogans. Just words a politician says to get into office and stay there.

I think anyone who wears fanboy or fangirl memorabilia from a politician is funny though, regardless of which politician they are worshiping (on both sides of the aisle).

Politician paraphernalia falls into the same category as Crocs for me.

Texas12&0 said:

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HaroldShipmanAg said:

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Texas12&0 said:

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samurai_science said:

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There is no such thing as MAGA. Start with that.

People vote R or they vote D. Some of the ones that voted for him (and would again) voted because he ran as a Republican, some voted because he is Trump, some disagree with some things he supports (but would still vote R) and some agree with everything he does. Who cares.

Its a stupid term because I would assume everyone wants America to be great?


Calling someone MAGA is daft. Its possible to be an R and not like everything he does and still want America to be great.

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Okay, what is your version of a great America?
Paint a picture.

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seems like you are baiting him into an answer....Its a political slogan like Hope and Change.....nothing more

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Nope, I'm genuinely curious.

For example, the Hope and Change slogan plus the fundamentally change America thing. I never bought into that. For one, I didn't see anything wrong with Americas fundamentals other than we needed to get back closer to them.

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Seems like you answered your own question here. Undoing as much of Obama's BS as possible would be a great start.

Code word / term for thrashing the libs

Also can be seen as a rallying cry for supporters of #47