Organizing Blueprint to Kill MAGA
Metaphorically of course
Dissidents to Defeat MAGA
The MAGA movement needs to be killed. It is a cancer that has infected our nation and we need to eradicate it as aggressively as you would try to wipe out an actual cancer that is about to kill you.
Democratic politicians know this but they seem to be flailing—again—at coming up with a viable strategy or in some case, the courage1 to do what needs to be done. Meanwhile Donald Trump and Elon Musk are actively and aggressively destroying and looting the country from within.
Trump wants us to think that his self-coup is inevitable and that he is unstoppable, like he has a mandate to do anything he wants. He repeatedly and wantonly violates the law and the U.S. Constitution, knowing that the courts are either too slow or in many cases unwilling to stop him. He has gotten away with every crime he has ever committed, and he knows he will never face any consequences; he has no guardrails.
When a judge does rule against Trump’s illegal actions, as US District Judge James Boasberg has done in the El Salvador rendition case, MAGA viciously attacks the judge personally with virulent force and across the media spectrum. They explicitly try to make the story about the judge rather than about Trump’s unconstitutional actions. It is an impressive propaganda machine at its very best.
Still, we are not powerless. As Americans and as progressives (or really, as not MAGAs), here are five steps that we can do now to save America from the pestilent open sores that are Trump, Musk, (and Putin):
Govern by principles
Play by MAGA’s new rules
Support democracy’s fighters
Build and leverage a progressive media ecosystem
Build an independent progressive support organization
These five steps form a blueprint to defeat MAGA. We will explore the details of these steps over the next week or so in this special six-part series.
The advice in this series is directed at all American patriots, not just members of the Democratic Party. That includes independents and the few remaining ethical Republicans. This is a fight for the soul of our country. We do not have time for purity tests or labels.
If you love America, join us in a true dissident movement to purge the scourge of Trump and his un-American MAGA followers.
What Is So Wrong With the Status Quo?
Many Democratic elites are going to dislike what I say in this series because I am attacking their status at the top of the party. Assuming they even read this, many might resist these ideas because they need to change or lose the access to power that the status quo imparts on them. That might almost be a bigger problem than Trump.
Nevertheless, sometimes people have to face a harsh reality in order to move forward and the cold truth is the Democratic Party is a loser party. Democrats lost the White House, the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court. The federal government is being dismantled by Elon Musk’s DOGE and our country is losing massive amounts of expertise and institutional knowledge that will take decades to restore. Trump commits illegal and unconstitutional acts every single day with near impunity.
America’s reputation internationally is in the gutter, especially now that Trump has openly attacked and abandoned a democratic Ukraine. He is aligning the U.S. with authoritarian dictators in Moscow and Beijing and our government will not be trusted by other democratic countries for a very long time.
Is the status quo working for progressives?
The brutal truth is that all of this damage was self-inflicted. It was in many ways the Democrats’ own fault: they lost to an insane, narcissistic, serial sex-abusing, compulsive liar and rapist who is a lifelong criminal and a convicted felon.
How does anyone lose to a man who is so fatally deficient, so incredibly flawed?
Mostly you do it by failing to recognize and adapt to the 21st century’s new social construct. You do it by being insular, self-centered and so worried about not offending anyone that you end up offending everyone. You do it by constantly fretting about what your internal polls say rather than what real people are telling you they need.
You also do it by outsourcing policy and politics to paid consultants and polling firms, and then trusting those sources when their goals ($) are clearly not aligned with voters’ goals (family and country).
Democrats lost in part because many of its leaders did nothing to address the needs of everyday Americans. Democrats lost because they became mired in identity politics and the inevitably futile attempt to pander to every micro subset of the Democrats’ base because that’s what their focus groups and polls told them to do.
Sadly, many Democratic politicians are continuing their ineffective and dated tactics because they still think they need to be cautious about “expending their political capital” (as if they even have any.)
“There’s a lot of other bills we’re going to have to fight off. This is not one of those we should be expending our political capital on.”2
-Arizona Democratic Senator Ruben Gallegos
All of this needs to change if progressives want to win again. It is going to take a new way of thinking. It will be painful and it will take a lot of courage, a lot of work, a lot of people, and a lot of money which has to come from somewhere.
Mostly, it is going to take a lot of fight.
Trump and Musk have a nearly insurmountable advantage in this war. They have access to billionaires’ funds and they have a huge head start. The battlefield is rigged because MAGAs control all of the levers of power. It will likely take a decade or more to fix the fascist mess they are building and the damage they have inflicted on government institutions and the rule of law.
But it will never happen at all if we never start.
Why listen to a guy named GOP Jesus?
You might ask, why should you listen to the writer of an anonymous semi-satirical social media account? That is a valid question. Literally no one knows who I am so let me share a little here.
I have never worked in politics3. The most I have been paid for political writing was about $25 one month on X, after subtracting the $8 monthly fee. (Oh, and I have ONE awesome paid subscriber here on Substack; hi Tyler!)
My views are my own and come from decades of just living and observing. I am not young but I am not as old as the real Jesus. When I was young, I was actually an insufferably naive, fiscally conservative Republican because that was what my father was and it was all I knew.
Then I went to college and learned about the real world. I figured out that the GOP, starting at least as far back as Ronald Reagan, was really the party of corporate interests who saw regular Americans as expendable sources of cheap labor and periodically of votes. My distrust of corporations with their unitary focus on profits fed a growing and healthy skepticism of the GOP.
Republican politicians have never cared about anyone or anything except their own moneyed interests. They hate today’s liberals and they hate today’s MAGAs even more (joke’s on them!).
Granted, many Democratic politicians are much the same. You generally don’t get elected President or to Congress without being ambitious and cutthroat but Democrats are objectively the party with policies that raise up everyone and not just the billionaires, their shareholders, and kinda sorta the white GOP voters at the expense of everyone else.
I became a Democrat before I graduated from college and I have never looked back.
I started my GOP Jesus Twitter account a couple of years ago to highlight the hypocrisy of the GOP and their abuse of religion in pursuit of power. I thought that by exposing their fake Christianity that authentic Christians and other people of faith (or ethics for the atheists and agnostics) would abandon Trump and the grifters that latched on to him.
Obviously I was wrong. When someone is in a cult, logic and reason cannot penetrate the dense fog they live in. We saw that in 2016 when Trump won the first time. To be fair, I thought there was no way Trump would win again with 34 felony convictions and the classified documents charges and everything else that had come out.
Like myself, Democratic leaders and Biden did not learn the lesson this time around either. Rather than fighting back during Biden’s term, Democrats and the administration dithered and hemmed and hawed and wrung their hands while pontificating about “bipartisanship” and a “return to norms.”
Incredibly, Democrats gave Trump a path back to the White House by not going after his criminality quickly, forcefully and aggressively.4 Let’s face it, Trump could not have run for President if he had been in prison where he clearly belongs.
So here we are.
How to Read and an Appeal For Your Support
Which brings us back to the present and the five things that I think progressives need to do in order to kill the MAGA movement:
Govern by principles (Just published!)
Play by MAGA’s new rules
Support democracy’s fighters
Build and leverage a progressive media ecosystem
Build an independent progressive support organization
My original idea was to write a single article around this blueprint but as I worked on it, the bigger, and more ambitious my ideas became and the full series grew out of that over the past month.
All of my past articles have been free to everyone, as is this introduction to the Organizing Blueprint to Defeat MAGA series. I am working hard to increase my subscribers and hopefully to gain paying subscribers which will help me to keep doing this (I am unemployed, so every little bit helps.)
At the same time, I do not believe in locking content behind paywalls because not everyone has the money to access every writer with good ideas, and also because resisting fascism is far more important than profit.
Therefore, I am going to try a middle ground: paying subscribers will get each article 2-3 days before I make them available to free subscribers and everyone else. If you are able to support my work with a paying subscription (which costs less than a coffee and doughnut), then I would greatly appreciate it. Or subscribe for free so you do not miss another GOP Jesus post.
Either way, thank you for reading and subscribing if you are so inclined. All together, we will kick the MAGA assholes to the curb.
Note: If you are reading this article after the full series release, they will be available as links in the list above or you can find them on my website. You can read them in any order, although Step 5 is by far the most important so be sure to read that one.
The support organization I propose in Step 5 is an innovative way to leverage support for all activists and progressive politicians to the point where progressives can and will win. Step 5 is also the most expensive and the most difficult. It is a huge undertaking, but I believe it is the key to saving Democracy in the United States of America.
I hope you agree and will join us in the fight.
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☮️ Peace ☮️
Kari Lake Accosted Ruben Gallego at a Posh D.C. Club, Adrian Carrasquillo, The Bulwark, March 19, 2025
I see this as a plus.
Thanks, Merrick Garland!
You are 100 percent right on how the democrats lost to Trump. They have been out of touch with the democratic voters as a whole. Hopefully they will get their shit together real real soon. Time is slipping away.