Leadership - Neither the Occupy movement nor the Tea Party had a strong personality in a clear leadership role. The MAGA movement does: Dr. Donald J. Trump. As a candidate and as President his strong personality gives a single strong rudder to route around obstacles, steer the ship towards navigated goals, and change tack quickly during emergent situations. Absent vested group trust in the personification of a unitary leadership, distraction, division, and group dissolution is much easier for outside influences to accomplish.
Authority - Occupy and Tea Party organization contended with problems common to startups: they have little existing power structure, self-identity, or reputation, while fighting for resources against entrenched power structures already in place. President Trump didn’t run as an independent or third-party candidate; he seized the reins of the Grand Old Party and took charge of a huge preexisting network of assets already in place.
Diversity - Unlike the identity politics poisoned collectivists of Occupy or the Tea Party political mavericks mostly relegated to the ‘outside wing’ of their contemporaneous political climate, MAGA has shown room for a wide diversity of ideas and the individualist determination to respectfully engage on issues of disagreement and work together towards common goals. Occupy tied itself up in compulsory authoritarian attitudes endemic to collectivists, and the Tea Party dithered without the ability to clearly define uniquely distinct ideals.
Experience - Naivety, trust in institutions, idealistic beliefs about power manifestation, innocent reliance on good faith, and ignorance of the vast technological instruments arrayed against them; these were vulnerabilities that left Occupy and Tea Party unprepared to face the horrible reactions of the power they threatened. It only became apparent as they were ‘kettled’ by police gauntlets, media smears, surveillance abuse, and state agency persecution. MAGA is much more sophisticated, partly because the veil has fallen. President Trump embodies the new worldliness, and has demonstrated how to fight back and win.
Success - Experience is a good teacher, but success is a outstanding trainer. Once achieved it can be replicated over and over, and as it continues it attracts more of itself, gathering the ever-growing crowds of those who place their bets with President Trump into a unified force with an amazingly powerful esprit des corps. Each new success piles on the rest and inspires more engagement, more unity, more enthusiasm, more determination, and more shared love for a president who keeps winning, winning, winning.
**Leadership** - Neither the Occupy movement nor the Tea Party had a strong personality in a clear leadership role. The MAGA movement does: Dr. Donald J. Trump. As a candidate and as President his strong personality gives a single strong rudder to route around obstacles, steer the ship towards navigated goals, and change tack quickly during emergent situations. Absent vested group trust in the personification of a unitary leadership, distraction, division, and group dissolution is much easier for outside influences to accomplish.
**Authority** - Occupy and Tea Party organization contended with problems common to startups: they have little existing power structure, self-identity, or reputation, while fighting for resources against entrenched power structures already in place. President Trump didn’t run as an independent or third-party candidate; he seized the reins of the Grand Old Party and took charge of a huge preexisting network of assets already in place.
**Diversity** - Unlike the identity politics poisoned collectivists of Occupy or the Tea Party political mavericks mostly relegated to the ‘outside wing’ of their contemporaneous political climate, MAGA has shown room for a wide diversity of *ideas* and the *individualist* determination to respectfully engage on issues of disagreement and work together towards common goals. Occupy tied itself up in compulsory authoritarian attitudes endemic to collectivists, and the Tea Party dithered without the ability to clearly define uniquely distinct ideals.
**Experience** - Naivety, trust in institutions, idealistic beliefs about power manifestation, innocent reliance on good faith, and ignorance of the vast technological instruments arrayed against them; these were vulnerabilities that left Occupy and Tea Party unprepared to face the horrible reactions of the power they threatened. It only became apparent as they were ‘kettled’ by police gauntlets, media smears, surveillance abuse, and state agency persecution. MAGA is much more sophisticated, partly because the veil has fallen. President Trump embodies the new worldliness, and has *demonstrated how to fight back and win.*
**Success** - Experience is a good teacher, but success is a *outstanding trainer*. Once achieved it can be replicated over and over, and as it continues it attracts more of itself, gathering the ever-growing crowds of those who place their bets with President Trump into a unified force with an amazingly powerful *esprit des corps*. Each new success piles on the rest and inspires more engagement, more unity, more enthusiasm, more determination, and more shared love for a president who keeps ***winning, winning, winning.***
I like this. Very well done!