{"id":28564,"date":"2025-01-28T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=28564"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:53:14","slug":"magafest-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=28564","title":{"rendered":"MAGAfest Destiny…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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‘Democratic America Drowning’<\/strong> by Court Painter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MAGA expansionism has become a defining feature of contemporary U.S. internal and external policy, rooted in the belief that the “Make America Great Again”(MAGA) movement holds a unique role and responsibility to reshape the world according to its autocratic vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This modern iteration, which adherents have dubbed “MAGAfest Destiny,<\/strong>” is marked by a focus on promoting kleptocratic governance, leveraging economic advantage through financial and military threats, asserting technological dominance, fostering global instability, advancing Christian white nationalist ideals, and embracing a stance of humanitarian non-intervention by withdrawal of monetary and moral support,at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics argue that this approach risks significant overreach and unintended consequences, undermining global stability and democratic norms. However, its leader and entertainer, Donald J. Trump, and supporters view it as a necessary and assertive form of Big Boss leadership in a complex and interconnected world\u2014one that they see as ripe for financial exploitation,ideological dominance and realignment in favour of American morbidly rich priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This MAGA ideology prioritizes unilateralism, autocratic governance, kleptocratic principles,ideological purity and the consolidation of power : at the expense of American democracy , international cooperation, long-term global equity and stability.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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USA seen at the event horizon of a black hole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Court Painter seen with painting “Democratic America Drowning”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USA seen being sucked into black hole.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Historical note:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manifest Destiny: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 19th-century doctrine\u00a0or belief that the expansion of the United States of America throughout the American continents\u00a0was both justified and\u00a0inevitable.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Democratic America Drowning’ by Court Painter MAGA expansionism has become a defining feature of contemporary U.S. internal and external policy, rooted in the belief that the “Make America Great Again”(MAGA) movement holds a unique role and responsibility to reshape the world according to its autocratic vision. This modern iteration, which adherents have dubbed “MAGAfest Destiny,” … Continue reading “MAGAfest Destiny…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28564"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32013,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28564\/revisions\/32013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}