Sadopolitics: Why MAGA clings tighter to Trump the more his policies hurt them

Donald Trump’s budget cuts and war on federal employees and government are not laser-targeted on Democrats , liberals, progressives, and the other people and communities that he has deemed to be “the vermin” and “poison in the blood” of the nation that should be purged.

Donald Trump is an autocrat and the leader of a political personality cult.

Donald Trump is an expert at sadopolitics, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: "Sadopopulism" is the notion that you're doing half of populism. You promise people things, but then when you get power you have no intention of even trying to implement any policy on behalf of the people. Instead, you deliberately make the suffering worse for your critical constituency. That's OK, because the logic is that pain is a resource, and leaders like Trump use that pain to create a story about who's actually at fault. The way politics works is that government doesn't solve your problems, it blames your problems on other people.

The Democratic Party’s leaders, the Resistance, and other pro-democracy Americans need to accept the unpleasant truth that Donald Trump's MAGA movement is not going away anytime soon.

Chasing down Trump 's much-obsessed about (white) “working class” MAGA voters is a fight the Democrats , as presently oriented, will not likely win on a national level.