Look, they’ve chosen a four-letter abbreviation for themselves, just like another authoritarian movement from a century ago, so why not use it instead of recycling that old one with all of its deniable baggage?

Use it as a noun. Call them “magas”. Each individual member is a “maga”.

Magas aren’t generic History Channel villains. They’re a uniquely American threat, one that deserves to be met with specificity. Practice saying its name with a fleck of acid from the back of your throat. #uspol

https://masto.nyc/@jmac/113385813973250608

I posted the above a day or two after I saw someone else adapt the old saw that goes something like “History has a word for people who helped Nazis even though they didn’t call themselves Nazis, and that word is ‘Nazis’.” They swapped out “Nazi” with “Republican MAGA supporters”, and that seemed to make the pattern lose all its punch. So why not just “Magas”?

News about the rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday night made me tap out this acerbic bit over breakfast today. I finally did a “My posts do not necessarily represent the opinions of […]” disclaimer to my Mastodon bio, and now’s as good a time as any to start exercising it.