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I've asked this same question, with similar results - none. I'm currently reading "A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America," by Richard Slotkin. In the book, Slotkin talks about five essential national myths. I haven't gotten to the Trump years and MAGA yet, but given what I've been reading, I'm seeing that whole MAGA thing is an attempt at a national myth, or at the very least the resurgence of prior myths - especially the founding myth, the frontier myth, and the lost cause myth. With myth, the specifics aren't important. It's about what the myths allow for - an identity.

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Pastor Matthew Best
Pastor Matthew Best

Written by Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.

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