UFO X-Files a weapon of MAGA's distraction

THE Russian philosopher Aleksandr Zinovyev once coined the term 'Homo Sovieticus'.

- Neil LESLIE

It described how some citizens of the former Soviet Union had been propagated into a new offshoot of the human species.

A branch of the extended family tree like Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon man. But one that had specifically evolved to resign itself to totalitarian control.

Homo Sovieticus now has an American cousin. Let's call him Pro-Maganon man.

He's a prototype of the Q-Anon conspiracy fantasist crossed with the DNA of Donald Trump's MAGA political cult, a creature bred to ignore reality, facts and knowledge.

Q-Anon was born around the belief that Trump was secretly fighting a cabal of cannibalistic paedophiles from Hollywood. Conspiracy is its creed.

So to these people the notion that some things just 'are', while others are demonstrably 'not'? Well that's just goddamned woke, leftist "reality" talk.

Somehow Trump either understood or stumbled on this political force and has weaponised it to foster a kind of Maga stormtrooper.

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That's why it's particularly satisfying to watch as he now wrestles for control of the monster he created.