The MAGA Coalition and Next Week's Potential Reversal of Progress

MAGA is essentially a coalition of losers from history: those who opposed FDR’s regulation of capital, Lincoln’s shift from tariffs to income taxes and public investment, and Jefferson’s push to separate church and state. Each was a minority in its day, but together—and fueled by disinformation—they’ve turned next week’s election into a coin flip. Now, they have a real shot at overturning the three most defining and positive political transformations of the modern world.