Crash Course: "Weird is really just the opposite of empathy": DNC delegates say what's off about MAGA is the hate

At the Democratic National Convention, delegates explain why Gov. 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In one sense, the answers were all over the map, with people talking about everything from Project 2025 to the book-banning campaigns in states like Florida. But after an afternoon spent bugging Democratic delegates and other attendees to explain "weird," a theme emerged. These Harris supporters used the word to describe not just the hateful motivations that fuel the MAGA movement, but to express perplexity over why Trump and his minions waste so much energy attacking people whose only offense is being different than them. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoqZ86P0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvejhhZGJkemdsdi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9M21lZWlpZWZrOSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmuzsax2aHF1nOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRoqZ86P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbnZzdXM4d2tkNy8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9M21lZWlpZWZrOVcDc3BjQgpmuzsax2aHF1nOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoqZ86P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZXRxYmtnZDUwby8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9M21lZWlpZWZrOVcDc3BjQgpmuzsax2aHF1nOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoqZ86P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvazV3ZGNlN3luMC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9M21lZWlpZWZrOVcDc3BjQgpmuzsax2aHF1nOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRoqZ86P0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveGljd3F3cDF3eC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9M21lZWlpZWZrOVcDc3BjQgpmuzsax2aHF1nOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~ Trump's cult of personality threatens to hasten the demise of the GOP From Chauncey DeVega: Donald Trump is an egomaniac who believes he is a martyr-prophet-warrior who is on a mission from God to become the country’s first dictator. This is part of a much larger pattern of delusional and unhinged behavior, which includes a pattern of habitual lying and other fantastical claims and thinking. In turn, the Republican Party and its propagandists amplify these lies as facts as part of a strategic disinformation propaganda program. In the most basic and obvious example of how Donald Trump and the Republican Party are now basically one and the same thing, the party’s platform has almost literally been rewritten to be “whatever Donald Trump wants he gets.” [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoqZ86P0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvODMxcXVsb2Jhay8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9M21lZWlpZWZrOSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmuzsax2aHF1nOUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). 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