The MAGA Death Cult Is Just as Advertised

For 8 long years, MAGA has cheered on death. It's the Thanatos Party, still and always.

Not long after the first inauguration of Trump in 2017, I ran into a discussion of the Doomsday Clock on Facebook.

That year, the clock, that midcentury modernist data-viz illustrating the imminence of global catastrophe, showed 11:57:30 p.m. Two and a half minutes to midnight, two and a half minutes to doom.

Two and a half minutes now seems like an eternity.

Right now, 8 years later, it’s 89 minutes to doom.

But in 2017 we didn’t know how bad things were going to get. At the same time, people discussing the clock on Facebook back then were, to say the least, concerned. The topic wasn’t politics but fear. Doom isn’t partisan.

But one commenter who repped MAGA consoled himself with his own calculus.

“Better nuclear winter than more letters in LGBTQ,” he wrote.