The 'Normie' Bubble

The headline in the Washington Examiner sounds encouraging enough: "The MAGA bubble is about to burst."It's about time! anyone not inside said bubble will doubtless think.Intrigued, and having doubts, I read the piece. My summary verdict is that it made lots of interesting observations, but that the headline would have been more accurate with ... for now appended.The author, Peter Laffin, makes lots of interesting comparisons between MAGA and the "Democrats" (really, the woke left, who control that party as MAGA controls the GOP), and concludes that they are both "bubbles" that look outlandish to "normal people." For example:The woke-era Democratic bubble proved remarkably durable, surviving one reality check after another for over a decade: Brexit, Donald Trump’s 2016 win, the backlash to “defund the police,” COVID restrictions, the parent revolt against indoctrination, to name a few.2024 punctured it. Trump’s comeback from the depths of Jan. 6 to the heights of a popular vote…