MAGA Hats Driving Leftists Into Voter Intimidation

Above, yours truly with my MAGA (or is it LMAGA?) hat. 

Two years ago, during the 2016 presidential campaign, I obtained some campaign buttons and a "Let's Make America Great Again" baseball cap. I am a collector of political Americana and saw the "MAGA hat" as the hottest item to get. 

Little did I know at the time that these MAGA hats put out by the Trump campaign would arouse extreme passion two years later.

"Let's Make America Great Again" or "Make America Great Again" is not a new campaign slogan. The 1980 Ronald Reagan campaign used this slogan, so it's hardly original.

But today, altercations and other incidents have been sparked by liberals and leftists whenever they see a Trump supporter wearing one in public. Some wearers have been assaulted. 

A "major" incident took place a few days ago in Covington, Kentucky when some high schoolers were wearing MAGA hats. The incident was totally mischaracterized by the media and their leftist lackeys, which may lead to defamation lawsuits against several media outlets.

Now, the left is trying to equate MAGA hats with KKK hoods. This is total insanity. Or is it?

Laura Ingraham has an excellent opinion piece on all this posted at Fox News.

She wrote:

There's so much news to cover every day in Trump World, that you'd think the press would stick to real reporting and analysis on important political developments. 

But, nooo. So, move over Anna Wintour, because left-wing malefactors are now in the business of dissing fashion accessories -- The Trump "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) hats.

"The MAGA hat carries a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from many people, especially from marginalized people," CNN's Don Lemon said. 

"This 'Make America Great Again' hat is just as maddening and frustrating and triggering for me to look at, as a KKK hood," said CNN commentator Angela Rye.

In the wake of the Covington Catholic High School fracas, the red MAGA has now become a talisman of evil and a symbol of white supremacy. Savannah Guthrie brought it up with a student at the center of the controversy, Nick Sandmann, on "Today." "Do you think if you weren't wearing that hat this might not have happened or it might have been different?" she asked him. Sandmann replied, "That's possible. But I would have to assume what Mr. Phillips was thinking and rather let him speak for why he came up to us." 

So the red hat now is apparently the Annabelle of head coverings, a thing capable of unleashing evil wherever it's seen. There is also a subtext here that's meant to intimidate. The left wants to take away your right to wear whatever the heck you want. It's weird.

According to Ingraham, the issue really isn't about MAGA hats, the issue is really about 2020:

Even in the end, it's really not about the hat, is it? It's about 2020. Trump-hating fanatics aim to deprive the president of any opportunity to brand his re-election campaign. In other words, any Trump paraphernalia will be verboten. 

I thought about this today, and it's actually in its own way a form of voter intimidation and potentially lethal with consequences that are incredibly destructive.

If they don't like it, f*ck 'em!

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