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MAGA Nation is Like a Psychology Textbook in Human Form

From voter fraud to pedophilia to playing victim, right-wingers accuse others of things that better describe themselves

Tim Wise
4 min readSep 5, 2022
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Virtually everything the American far-right says about others reveals itself.

They’re like a walking, talking cult of psychological projection.

Consider who’s really engaged in election fraud

Those who cleave to the MAGA agenda falsely say the left is fomenting voter and election fraud. And yet, in case after case, it’s Republicans casting ballots on behalf of dead family members or living family members or trying to vote multiple times or in multiple jurisdictions.

In Arizona.

In New York.

In Colorado.

In Wisconsin.

In Michigan.

In Nevada.

And in Florida — specifically at the sprawling Trump-friendly community known as The Villages.

In case after case, as even the conservatives at The Bulwark have noted, it has been Republicans committing voter and election fraud, not Democrats.

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Tim Wise
Tim Wise

Written by Tim Wise

Senior Fellow, African American Policy Forum, critical race theorist, and author of 9 books on racism and racial inequity in the U.S.

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