A Day at the Million MAGA March

Trump supporters demonstrated on his behalf in Washington, D.C.

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Rallies have always been the lifeblood of Donald Trump’s campaign strategy. To the president and his staunchest supporters, the often-raucous events were the secret sauce that propelled him to his surprise victory in 2016. But even after most networks called the race for Joe Biden, MAGA sentiment prevails among the president’s biggest fans. 

Thousands of Trump supporters flocked to Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. on Saturday to protest the mainstream media, rail against the Democratic Party, and contest President Trump’s electoral defeat to Joe Biden. The rally was reportedly an amalgamation of several different grassroots events that circulated online before November 14, including “March for Trump,” “Stop the Steal,” and the “Million MAGA March.” 

The event kicked off at Freedom Plaza at noon on Saturday and featured a litany of GOP firebrand speakers, including newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia’s 14th District. “You see, I’m not a politician—I’m a proud American woman,” Greene said during her speech, shouting over a nearby “BLM sucks” chant. “The Democrat Party is no longer an American party. They’re the party of socialism! The party of riots! The party of burning businesses! The party of AOC’s Green New Deal!” The prospect of environmental progressive takeover prompted a loud chorus of boos from the crowd.

Almost all of the rally attendees The Dispatch interviewed said they believe Trump won the election. Many cited debunked conspiracy theories, a few believed that God had chosen Trump, and all were worried about a Biden administration implementing socialism.

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    Antebellum Whig

    Wow.

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    Johntadian

    You had me at, "I’m here because Alex Jones told me to be here,”

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    cheerio

    I cannot believe the opportunity was squandered to saturate the DC area with aerosolized anti-psychotics.

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    Merrijane

    "I’m here because Alex Jones told me to be here." Whoa.

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    Danmeir42

    I can't tell you how sad I felt reading this. The delusion, fed by b.s. - and I know this affect highly intelligent people - it's just so hard to take.

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  6. CW

    The man who created NewsBusters to counteract what he saw as liberal bias in the media and says he basically built the infrastructure for conservatives online has been speaking out lately about why they have created an alternate reality. Matthew Sheffield in today's NYT:

    Q. What are some of the most important things about right-wing media that people don’t understand?

    A. Almost all right-wing support in the United States comes from a view that Christians are under attack by secular liberals. This point is so important and so little understood. Logic doesn’t matter. Fact-checking doesn’t matter. What matters is if I can use this information to show that liberals are evil. Many of them are not interested in reporting the world as it is, but rather to shape the world like they want it to be.

    He says, "Facebook is the primary protector and enabler of the far right in the United States, without question. The company has sheltered and promoted this content for years. Mark Zuckerberg even now says that Steve Bannon calling for beheadings is not justification to ban him. Zuckerberg was also fine with tolerating Holocaust denial until he was called out for it."

    A lot of people get their news from Facebook and its a cesspool of disinformation. YouTube, Twitter, Alex Jones, Parler, and now possibly Trump associates buying NewsMax. They have been creating the ultimate safe space where reality is whatever they want it to be and where unsuspecting people are sitting targets for unscrupulous disinfo artists. If we don't confront this like the emergency it is, this country will break apart.

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      Kmregan7

      Except Christians are not "under attack." This country is still majority Christian. The problem is that they can't force it on others anymore (well, that's not quite true. The 'others' just aren't letting them do it anymore - they're pushing back. So it FEELS like they're under attack. But obviously, "shape the world like they want it to be" is the key point.

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    Pat Riot

    See, Trump/Republicans are absolutely *not* conservative in any way shape or form, and they have nothing at all to do with the "small government" libertarians of the pre-Trump era...

    ***

    Reporter @EmmaVigeland: Do you think Joe Biden is a socialist?

    Trump supporter: Yes.

    Reporter: How would you define socialism?

    Trump supporter: I define socialism as when you bring down your own country, your own race, because he’s not black.

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      Scarlette Tarte

      Good grief.

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    2. CW

      Newly elected senator from Alabama, Tommy Tubberville, about Biden:

      "I look at it and I see what country I grew up in and what it’s meant and the direction that we were going, and it’s concerning to me that a guy can run for president of the United States and have an opportunity to win when he leans more to a Socialist type of government. … And that’s concerning to me that we’re to the point now where we’ve got almost half the country voting for something that this country wasn’t built on.

      "Very concerning and, you know, as I tell people, my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of Socialism. Today, you look at this election, we have half this country that made some kind of movement, now they might not believe in it 100 percent, but they made some kind of movement toward socialism. So we’re fighting it right here on our own soil. We’ve got to decide, you know, over the years which direction we’re going, and that part’s concerning to me."

      I honestly believe there are millions of people who think socialism = Nazism and Hitler because the word socialist appears in the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

      He also thinks the three branches of government are the House, Senate, and Executive.

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        Pat Riot

        Yep, whenever you heard, "socialism" from Republicans, they mean, "any opposition to Trump and the Republicans regardless of what it is".

        They use it like little kids use the word, "gay".

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    Paul Britton

    The stuff about the "Proud Boys" not being allowed by their leaders to speak to the press reminds me of the instances where antifa types (at Portland and I think some other places) have said the same. Those people are much more alike than they think.

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      Pat Riot

      There are zero elected Democrats endorsing "antifa" (which is not even an organized group and has no website) whereas Trump clearly commanded them to "stand down and stand by". Moral relativism in defense of Trump...

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        Scarlette Tarte

        There are also zero elected antifa. But we have Q followers in congress and in statehouses around the country.

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        Pat Riot

        ...clearly commanded the Proud Boys....

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      rlritt

      Yes but they're a marginal and no one cares about them. Antifa are not an organized group. They are not Democrats. They hate Democrats and Republicans equally. They are anarchists who are against all government. No one takes them seriously. They like to sow chaos.

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  9. Jonathan Curry

    "But he was enthusiastic about Trump’s healing powers. 'President Trump is bringing us together.'"

    Uhhhhh....Well, he certainly has an uncanny ability to "Unite the Right."

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    David Chen

    Do we have confirmation that the SpaceX astronauts were actually going for work and not to flee the country? Their timing is suspicious to say the least. We must be vigilant. We should lock down all space flights out until we can figure out what the hell is going on! #SPACEXSCAPE!!!

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