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MAGA Built a War Machine and Now It's Pointing in the Wrong Direction
This week on The Overlap, we’re exploring the ultimate “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” moment in American politics. Join Joshua and Will as they trace how a decade of “independent expenditures” and manufactured outrage built a shiny new political highway, only for a real estate developer and some very aggressive email marketers to steal the keys and drive it straight into a ditch of their own making.
We dive into the high-octane engineering of WinRed’s “accidental” recurring donations—where your grandma’s twenty bucks became a hundred-million-dollar refund error—and the psychological warfare of the Stop the Steal fundraising machine. Watch as the “loyal” foot soldiers like Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes learn the hard way that a twenty-two-year prison sentence is just a “routing error” in a system that views human lives as disposable infrastructure.
From Ronna McDaniel being discarded like a used tissue to rural hospitals in red districts getting the “efficiency” treatment from the world’s richest man, we follow the trail of broken promises and drained bank accounts. Because as it turns out, the machine doesn’t have a loyalty setting; it only has a “concentrate power” button, and it just realized you’re sitting in the way.
States United Democracy Center (statesunited.org)
Protect Democracy Project (protectdemocracy.org)
Indivisible (indivisible.org)
Election Reformers Network (electionreformers.org)
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By FoFFThis week on The Overlap, we’re exploring the ultimate “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” moment in American politics. Join Joshua and Will as they trace how a decade of “independent expenditures” and manufactured outrage built a shiny new political highway, only for a real estate developer and some very aggressive email marketers to steal the keys and drive it straight into a ditch of their own making.
We dive into the high-octane engineering of WinRed’s “accidental” recurring donations—where your grandma’s twenty bucks became a hundred-million-dollar refund error—and the psychological warfare of the Stop the Steal fundraising machine. Watch as the “loyal” foot soldiers like Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes learn the hard way that a twenty-two-year prison sentence is just a “routing error” in a system that views human lives as disposable infrastructure.
From Ronna McDaniel being discarded like a used tissue to rural hospitals in red districts getting the “efficiency” treatment from the world’s richest man, we follow the trail of broken promises and drained bank accounts. Because as it turns out, the machine doesn’t have a loyalty setting; it only has a “concentrate power” button, and it just realized you’re sitting in the way.
States United Democracy Center (statesunited.org)
Protect Democracy Project (protectdemocracy.org)
Indivisible (indivisible.org)
Election Reformers Network (electionreformers.org)