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I arrived at my theory of MAGA by trying to understand how something like "Paxton or Talarico?" is even an open question.

In the culture I inhabit--of book knowledge, impersonal institutions, and policy--it could not be more obvious that Talarico is the pick.

Importantly, most Republican voters are not pure MAGA. MAGA obviously has strong appeal to Republican voters, or we wouldn't have this president or Paxton as nominee. But most people contain competing impulses.