Trump Needs His MAGA Followers to Believe America Is Screwed

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Trump Needs His MAGA Followers to Believe America Is Screwed
DONALD’S DOOMSAYERS
Matt Lewis
Senior Columnist
Published Mar. 29, 2024 4:52AM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-needs-his-maga-followers-to-believe-america-is-screwed?

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It’s been years since I was involved in a good old-fashioned Twitter (X) spat. So imagine my surprise when I became embroiled in one on Holy Wednesday. This wasn’t just some rando troll, either.

My interlocutor was none other than Richard Grenell, former ambassador to Germany and former acting director of the United States National Intelligence—a man that Donald Trump, Jr. calls a “top contender for secretary of state” in a second Trump administration. The impetus for his ire was a video of me interviewing The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, over which I tweeted the following words: “It's a GREAT time to be alive. So why are so many Americans depressed and convinced that things have never been worse ?!?”

Grenell, who has over a million X followers, responded by cryptically citing “3 wars,” “An open border,” “An open attack on political enemies,” as the accomplishments of the sinister “The Biden Regime.”

I have casually known Grenell for almost a decade, and I can’t recall him ever publicly criticizing me. So I was curious: Why did this particular tweet spark this pushback at this particular time? After all, Grenell is an important, and presumably busy, guy. What is more, the notion that modern Americans are too gloomy is, by now, a trite observation. The Harvard University professor Steven Pinker has been making this same argument for years. Why did this particular tweet hit a nerve?

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[yellowdogintexas]

1. The Mantra of the R. party has been "America is Doomed with Democrats in Charge"

for a very long time. The MAGA regime has just taken off with that. The whole "Take our Country Back" is based on that