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GOP laid bare dark truth with 'bizarre' nostalgia for time when US was in 'hell': analyst

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MAGA's pandemic obsession with harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed its dark core, an analyst argued on Monday. Salon 's Amanda Marcotte discussed how, as MAGA fractures, Republicans have been looking for a scapegoat. Trump's approval rating is sinking as the economy and the Iran war fuel frustration among the coalition's loyal followers. "For normal people, yearning for a time when we were socially isolated and afraid of dying from a highly contagious virus is downright bizarre," Marcotte wrote. "MAGA, though, has a reason to feel nostalgia for a pandemic that killed millions. It was an era when the GOP got to do what they love more than anything: play the victim as loudly as possible before huge audiences that were especially vulnerable to disinformation." The right seized the pandemic as an opportunity to claim white conservatives were the most oppressed, while refusing the vaccine as many Republicans died, Marcotte argued. But in Trump's second term, and with dissatisfaction am

First report: MAGA has pandemic nostalgia — salon.com, 1d