Although MAGA figureheads have been quick to point fingers at the left for Kirk’s death, Tyler’s grandmother, Debbie Robinson, 69, insisted that they come from a family of Trump supporters.
She spoke with Daily Mail on Friday after news of Robinson’s arrest broke. “My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump,” Debbie told the outlet. “Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”
We could use more news informing us of the subfactions and relationships that make up MAGA.
I wonder if reporting will make them scatter, or galvanize them.
It’d probably be like reporting on Christian nationalist groups who try to take over towns and cities. They won’t react in any meaningful way unless there’s already internal fractures to begin with.
You can’t fight what you don’t understand…
But it’s fucking insane the pushback you get most of the time for digging deeper than “they’re evil”.
Like, even if the goal is just playing them against each other instead of reforming them, they’re easily manipulated, but you at least need to know what they want