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THE VIEW FROM HERE - Just as polarization can destroy a country, its opposite, Centrism, can save the USA. By their very natures, MAGA and Wokeism are extremists; only 15% of Americans accept their ideologies. Despite their small numbers, MAGA and Wokeism have a hugely disproportional amount of power due to a shared tactic – ruthlessness. Neither allows for any disagreement as shown by the Woker’s expelling Black professors who do not share the Woke Ideology that Blacks are hopelessly doomed to servitude by White racism.
MAGA and Woke Are Two Sides of One Coin
Any totalitarian ideology which posits that it alone has the Truth has no room for any disagreement. The more extremist, the greater the demand for purity. One cannot remain a Fundamentalist preacher and teach that just as all roads lead to Rome, all religions lead to GOD. Only faith in Jesus Christ as one’s personal Lord and Savior leads to salvation and refusal of Jesus leads to damnation. In Islam, anyone who does not accept that Mohammad is Allah’s prophet is an infidel who has one of the two options: (1) convert to Islam or (2) be killed.
Despite lingering totalitarian attitudes among Christians, most of the world’s Christians have dropped such fanaticism. Most People recognize that religion is not the only institution which can fall sway to totalitarianism. Wokeism insists that White and Jewish oppressors are the sole cause of the world’s problems. Perhaps, the best predictor whether a religion or secular movement will become a ruthless totalitarian dictatorship is whether it believes that it alone has an exclusive lock on the truth. German Nazism and Soviet Marxism like the Roman Church during the Inquisition not only believed it held the sole answer to mankind’s salvation but also that anyone who did not agree should be exiled or put to death.
MAGA and Wokers Control the GOP and the Dems for One Reason
Both are more ruthless in dealing with internal dissent than other GOP or Dems. While MAGA has coalesced into a personality cult, Wokers are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. It would be a profound misunderstanding of group psychology to think that defeat, such as the Dems had in the November 2024 election, will result in extremists’ recanting their racist ideology. Rather, the opposite is usually the result. Rather, they interpret their loss to their failure to have sufficient ardor; thus, the answer is to double down on what failed. Thus, Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) and its Woke mainstream media become more openly more anti-Jewish and are moving from Socialist to Communist, e.g., the elevation of the anti-Semite Zohran Mamdani as their newest hero.
MAGA’s Meltdown over Epstein
MAGA is undergoing a similar meltdown. Those outside the MAGAsphere have a hard time believing that anyone would fall for the Democrat’s child sex slavery ring malarkey . MAGA’s cult leader had promised that when he regained control of the Presidency, everything would be published. In particular, MAGA obsessed over Epstein’s Client List. Attorney General Bondi had even said that the List was on her desk for review, but when the big show and tell moment arrived, she said that there was no list!
The Client List had Become the MAGA’s Holy Grail
Trump’s failure to produce the Epstein’s Client list is tantamount to King Arthur’s being unable to pull Excalibur from the stone. Either there was no Democrat child sex slavery ring or Trump??? MAGA is dumfounded and flummoxed for an answer. Do they give up on the idea of the Client List or give up on Trump? Few will give up on Trump; rather their brains adopt their leaders’ new story, that the entire idea of the Epstein always had been a Dem hoax which only dumb people would believe. One may rejoin the fold by accepting Trump’s explanation. The alternative is excommunication, i.e., social and political isolation.
Trump’s Other Problem, Stephen Millers’s Racism
Trump had a perfect opportunity to nullify Stephen Miller’s virulent anti-Mexican racism when he promised to rid the US of the “criminal illegals,” “the worst of the worst.” Trump refusal to even try to make deals with sanctuary cities was myopic. Angelenos do not want anyone, legal or illegal, following them home and shooting them dead their driveways. Thus, cities like Los Angeles would be hard pressed not to allow ICE agents into jails and prisons to arrest and deport criminal aliens. Trump never tried, although there is some indication ICE’s Homan wanted Trump to be less extreme.
The reality is that Stephen Miller had encouraged Trump to greatly over-promise. In reality, illegals who with serious crimes would (1) either be in prison or (2) hard to find and arrest.
(1) If the illegals had been convicted and were serving time, could they be legally released for deportation in violation of a US court’s sentencing? Would Trump release child rapists and fly them to their home country, which might set the criminals free so that they could return to the US?
(2) If local enforcement had been unable to solve some crimes, ICE was in a much worse situation to solve local crimes than the LAPD or LA Sheriff’s Department. Until a crime is solved, how does anyone know whether the perp was an illegal?
Deporting millions of criminal aliens based on Stephen Millers’ racist exhortations was doomed from the start. Like Epstein Client List, the idea that Trump could deport millions of criminal aliens was a delusion fueled by Miller’s racism.
Miller’s Anti-Mexicanism Has Placed Trump in Terrible Position
Due to the barbaric manner in which ICE has gone after Los Angeles’ Mexicans, be they legal, illegal or citizens, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of Mexicans staying home rather than go to work. The impact on businesses is profound since many cannot function without their primarily Mexican workforce. Miller has convinced Trump, who is not a deeply analytical thinker, that Trump could easily ramp up his deportation numbers by raiding Home Depots, garment factories, Mexicans walking down the street, farm workers, etc.
In order to stop Stephen Miller’s screaming triads against ICE officials, they have stooped to unconstitutional tactics which have tanked Trump’s ratings on immigration. According to The Hill on July 17, 2025, Trump’s ratings on immigration have fallen to 41%; Pew Research shows that 61% disprove of deporting illegals to prisons such as El Salvador’s CECOT. As ICE is shown incarcerating US citizens only to lie that they had attacked ICE agents, the more Americans are turning against Trump. The Nazi-esq nature of ICE agents being in unmarked cars without license plates and with no type of identification on the thugs as they snatch illegals and US citizens alike, the more Miller’s racist ideology is harming Trump.
Here’s Something We Can Do?
De-register as GOP or Dem and re-register as Independent. As long as one stays registered as GOP or Dem, the leadership will ignore you. As soon as you de-register, you become irresistible. The only power which can end the MAGA and Woke grip on America is more registered Independents. Do not form a new party. It’s the same psychology why teen stars in the fifties had no girl friends. As soon as you leave the market, your allure dissipates.
(Richard Lee Abrams is a Los Angeles-based attorney, author, and political commentator. A long-time contributor to CityWatchLA, he is known for his incisive critiques of City Hall and judicial corruption, as well as his analysis of political and constitutional issues. Abrams blends legal insight with historical and philosophical depth to challenge conventional narratives. A passionate defender of civic integrity and transparency, he aims to expose misuse of power and advocate for systemic reform in local government. You may email him at [email protected])
