NEWS HEADLINES: Tucker Carlson Reveals The FIVE PILLARS of MAGA — Bookmark This! * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Tucker Carlson:
So, there’s this scene in Animal Farm. It’s the last scene in the novel — the famous George Orwell novel — the one less referred to than 1984, but in some ways a lot better.

And there’s this scene where the pigs and the men are playing cards at a table.

Now, for the course of the novel, the pigs are leading the animals — the animals of the farm — in rebellion against the men whose cruel and capricious and greedy leadership has kind of wrecked the farm. They’ve risen up collectively to take back what’s theirs — the means of production — and they’re going to distribute the fruits equally, and everything is going to be fair and equitable and things are going to be great.

And the pigs naturally rise to the top of the hierarchy because they’re the smartest. Following them are the stalwart horses and the sweet-tempered, trusting cattle — all the way down the chain.

So it’s left to the pigs to negotiate with the men, the former farm owners.

And of course they hate the men, right? They’re the declared enemies of the men.

And in the final scene, the other animals are gathered outside the house, noses pressed against the glass — and the pigs are sitting inside, basically partying with the men.

For a moment, they become indistinguishable. You can’t tell the pig from the man. They’ve melded into one.

In other words, the movement the pigs led has been completely corrupted and become the mirror image of what it purported to be.

And the reason, of course, was that Orwell was describing the Soviet leadership — which overthrew an aristocracy only to install its own, even more tyrannical and genocidal version.

But it really describes almost all human organizations — which, unless you’re careful and thoughtful and get into the consistent habit of restating your principles out loud, most organizations wind up resembling whatever force they were created to fight against.

They become inversions of themselves — mirror images of what they were intended to be.

This is just the way things are.

It certainly happened to the Democratic Party, by the way, in our lifetimes. Forty years ago, the Democratic Party was the party of what? Peace and human rights, and against big business.

Since the Clinton years, of course, it has been the opposite of those things. The Democratic Party has been the defender of oligarchy and the main driver of war — and, of course, the great proponent of censorship, the opponent of human rights.

“My body, my choice,” they say — as they force you to take the COVID vax.

This has been noted quite a bit. There’s a pretty good book written about it several years ago — Ship of Fools.

Sorry.

But this can happen not just to the Democratic Party or the Communist Party — the Bolshevik Party of 1917 — it can happen to really any party, including the Republican Party, including the party of MAGA.

It hasn’t happened necessarily — but there are people who would like it to happen.

And so, without attacking them personally, and with the sincere belief that they’re acting out of what they think are good intentions — trying to subvert a movement that they did not create and had nothing to do with — they’re doing it for reasons they think are valid.

Taking out the possibility that they’re just evil and trying to destroy something, giving them every benefit of every doubt — there are some highly aggressive people in Washington, D.C., who are trying to turn the MAGA movement into the opposite of what it was created to be.

The opposite of what voters hoped it would be when they voted for it — what tens of millions of Americans believed it was.

And so before that happens completely, and before we forget what MAGA once was, it’s probably worth stating in very clear terms what it is.

What is MAGA?

Well, MAGA of course means “Make America Great Again.” It’s an acronym. But what does that mean, exactly?

We don’t have to guess, because Donald Trump, for ten years — ten full years, 2015 to 2025 — has been articulating again and again and again, with a remarkable level of repetition, five consistent themes about what this is.

What is MAGA?

Let’s go through and name and explain the five pillars of MAGA. It’s not exactly the Bill of Rights, but in political terms, it’s meaningful.

These are the founding principles of the governing political coalition that runs the United States right now, and they are too rarely articulated.

So let’s do that.

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Pillar One: America First

What is the first pillar of MAGA? Well, of course it’s America First.

Here’s Donald Trump, before he got the nomination for president — in the spring of 2016 — explaining what “America First” means:

“My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else. Has to be first. Has to be. That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make. America first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.”

That was April 27, 2016.

At the time, Donald Trump had been elected to nothing. He hadn’t even officially secured the nomination. Ted Cruz was still running against him until the Indiana primary the next month.

He was still just a candidate — totally unproven.

But the central theme of the next ten years of his political life — and of the country’s political life — is right there in that clip: America First.

The purpose and duty of the American government is to represent the United States of America.

Another way to put it would be: the duty of the U.S. government is to make good on the core promise of democracy — that the country operates on behalf of its owners, the citizens of that country.

It would seem very obvious.

Of course, Trump was attacked for it immediately. He was called an anti-Semite — you may not remember this, but he was — because he used a phrase that Charles Lindbergh, who was not an anti-Semite but did oppose American entry into World War II (along with tens of millions of other Americans), used very often.

The “America First” movement was the American movement of the late 1930s and early 1940s pushing the Roosevelt administration away from joining a war in Europe.

It didn’t mean they were pro-Nazi. Many of them were very anti-Nazi. They just didn’t think the United States had a role in that war.

But when Trump used the phrase “America First,” he was attacked as some sort of moral deviant.

Yet the idea itself was so self-evidently true — so obvious — that for a lot of people, even non-Republicans, a light bulb went off:

Wait a second — you mean the government doesn’t operate on that principle?

We always assumed our government, which we pay for and which acts in our name, was always operating on our behalf.

And it took Donald Trump’s entry into politics in 2015 to awaken the rest of the country to the fact that many of the biggest decisions our government makes have no reference point at all in American interest.

They just don’t care whether it’s good for the United States.

Well, that’s not only anti-democratic — it’s illegitimate.

If you have a democratic republic whose government is not acting on behalf of its citizens, you don’t have a legitimate government.

That’s grounds for overthrowing the government, actually.

So people were shocked by this — and Trump was attacked — but of course, you know the rest.

He went on to win the nomination and the presidency that year really on the basis of that idea: America First.

You can have only one true allegiance, and it needs to be to the United States.

You can’t have dual citizenship because you can’t have dual loyalty — in the same way that polygamy, for whatever its benefits, doesn’t work very well in the long run.

You can’t be truly loyal to two wives — and you can’t be truly loyal to two countries.

Sometimes their interests intersect, but very often they diverge — and when they do, you have to pick one.

It has to be the path that serves the country that you live in — and that’s the United States of America.

America First.

That’s the first principle of MAGA, and every decision that this ruling coalition makes has to be made through the lens of America First.

Period.

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Pillar Two: Borders

But there are four remaining pillars that derive from the first.

The second point Trump made again and again — and rode to the presidency on — is that the country has to control its borders.

If you do not control your borders, you are not a country.

A nation-state is a physical place — identifiable on a map. It has borders. There’s a difference between ten feet on this side and ten feet on the other.

Different laws, different customs, different languages. One’s this country, the other’s that country.

You can’t have a “global country.” It doesn’t work — and it’s inherently tyrannical.

And Trump made that point again and again by saying, famously: Build that wall.

“We’re going to have strong, incredible borders, and people are going to come into our country — but they’re going to come in legally. We’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be built.”

That was almost ten years ago.

The wall has not been built.

Despite what you may hear, there is not a wall spanning the U.S.–Mexico border. There are portions of wall, but for a bunch of reasons, it hasn’t been completed.

And that reveals a lot — most notably, the resistance to that idea in Washington.

It turns out, as we learned during that campaign, that the Republican Party didn’t want to build a wall. That’s why they’d never tried.

They didn’t want distinct borders because they weren’t nationalists — they were globalists.

So, by saying “Build the wall,” Trump not only revealed that reality, he illuminated the nature of the people running the country — deceptive and rotten.

They resisted then, and they still resist border control today.

They deny that the native, American-born population is being replaced — but it is.

That’s not a conspiracy theory; it’s a measurable reality shown clearly in census numbers.

The resistance of both parties to acknowledging that simple mathematical fact tells you everything about their intent.

It’s sinister. They want it.

And a lot of those people are Republicans. They’ve disliked Trump from day one for pushing this truth.

But because he said it out loud, the rest of us should be forever grateful.

That’s pillar two: a country must have real borders.

The people who live in the country have a moral and legal right to choose who else joins them — in the same way that a homeowner has a right to decide who sleeps in his house.

If it’s our country, we determine who lives next door.

And if it’s not, we don’t.

It’s literally that simple.

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Pillar Three: No More Pointless Wars

The third pillar of MAGA — something Trump articulated from day one — is that the “War on Terror,” and all pointless wars that don’t serve America’s direct national interest, are destructive.

Wars not waged in self-defense — wars not repelling invasion — are corrosive.

They’re incredibly expensive, and they kill Americans.

They’re almost never waged to serve our interests but instead to serve others.

Trump said this for the first time in the February 2016 GOP primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, when he looked Jeb Bush in the eye and said, “The Iraq War was a disaster.”

At the time, that was considered shocking. People couldn’t believe he said it.

But thanks to Trump, people woke up.

No matter what the “briefing book” said, the truth was that those who had fought and suffered in these wars were the leastlikely to want more of them.

They’d had enough.

Trump kept up this theme, and in many ways, it was the most controversial — yet most powerful — thing he ever said:

“We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight foreign wars that are endless, stupid wars. I was the only president in modern history who did not have any new wars. No new wars. I finished some old ones.”

That was March 2023 at CPAC.

Every time Trump said that — even at the U.N. — he got wild applause.

If you asked 100 people who voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024 why they voted for him, the overwhelming majority would include: “No more pointless wars.”

Because since 2001, we’ve had an endless succession of them — and we haven’t won a single one.

Not one.

Every single one has weakened the United States and hurt Americans.

One of the reasons we have an opioid crisis is because of those wars.

And none of them were waged on behalf of us.

They were for others — our “allies” — or some ridiculous notion about “turning the Middle East into Western Europe.”

Trump alone said no.

And guess what? He won.

That’s pillar three.

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Pillar Four: Bring Back Real Jobs

Donald Trump, from day one — the famous escalator ride — and going back decades on CNN and ABC — has always made the same point: globalization shortchanges America.

It helps bankers and the finance class — but it hollows out the country.

A country that doesn’t make anything is not a real country.

Everyone knows this intuitively, but libertarian economists — basically doing the bidding of the finance class — have told us for forty years, “It’s fine! It increases GDP!”

As if GDP is the only or best measure of a nation’s health.

It’s not.

GDP measures activity — not well-being.

A nation with six thriving cities and the rest in decay is not a healthy country.

It’s a dying one.

Trump said this again and again:

“Our politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalization — moving our jobs, our wealth, and our factories to Mexico and overseas. Globalization has made the financial elite very, very wealthy, but it’s left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache.”

Every word of that is true.

Drive across the country — you’ll see it.

The United States has been hollowed out.

And Trump has said this for decades.

That’s the fourth pillar of MAGA: bring back a real economy.

Globalization has not worked for the United States.

That’s why Trump got the majority of the popular vote.

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Pillar Five: Free Speech

And the fifth pillar is simple: Free Speech.

It’s our birthright.

It’s the first right enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

It was given to us by God.

The purpose of the U.S. government is to protect that right — because it’s the line between slavery and freedom.

Censorship is always a threat.

The powerful don’t want the people to complain about how they’re being ruled or looted.

And so they devise schemes — once dressed up as blasphemy, now dressed up as “sensitivity.”

“Oh, you can’t say that — it’s hateful.”

But it’s the same thing: an attempt to keep less powerful people from criticizing the most powerful.

That’s censorship.

And Trump, in his relentless attacks on “woke culture,” has been the most effective defender of free speech in American politics in generations.

By saying what he believed — and not apologizing — he broadened the boundaries of acceptable discourse.

He moved the Overton Window — again and again.

Here’s one example from his acceptance speech last summer in Milwaukee:

“Americans are exhausted trying to keep up with the latest list of approved words and phrases. The goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated, and driven from society. The far-left wants to coerce you into saying what you know to be false — and scare you out of saying what you know to be true.”

Exactly.

Cancel culture is censorship.

And Trump stood up against it, again and again — leading by example.

That’s pillar five.

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So, to restate — there are five pillars of MAGA:

1. America First — the government must act for the benefit of its own citizens.
2. Borders — a nation has the right to decide who enters.
3. No More Pointless Wars — only defend our own.
4. Bring Back Real Jobs — rebuild the productive economy.
5. Free Speech — the cornerstone of liberty.

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