I tend to agree with Ran in his “Trump is a fire” analogy. But I’d like to extend the analogy and see where it goes.
I spent some years of my youth as a wildland firefighter. There, I was taught about the “fire triangle.” Fire needs three things to sustain itself: (i) fuel, (ii) heat, and (iii) oxygen.
Ran says “And I don’t want to make any specific predictions about how far it’s going to burn, because I don’t have a clear sense of how burnable the world is.”
By analogously analyzing the fire triangle factors, I think we can begin to take apart the world that continues to provide heat, fuel, and oxygen for MAGAs.
Thoughts?
[Note: I’m not OP, just a random Ran Preieur lurker]
That makes sense to me.
For the fuel analogy I would suggest lack of trust in the current goverment institutions, or maybe the very unreliability of those institutions. I don’t think this movement would have been as successful if existing societal structures were working properly.