The Problem with MAGA

There's a lot that's 100% right in this Ezra Klein article, but this line to me - not even from Klein himself - sums up a large part of the problem with MAGA, who always see themselves as some sort of Noble Moral Warrior Force of Goodness crusading for righteousness against forces that either don't exist:

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.

or that turn out to be everything they dream/claim of being but aren't:

In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive — because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.