Pushing MAGA Out: The Resistance Rises

Pushing MAGA Out: The Resistance Ramps Up

https://portside.org/2025-08-22/pushing-maga-out-resistance-ramps

Portside Date: August 22, 2025

Author: Max Elbaum

Date of source: August 19, 2025

Convergence

 

In my previous article, A Path to Pushing MAGA Out of Power, I offered a set of ideas about what is needed to block MAGA in a way that offers more than temporary relief from authoritarian rule. The goal is to put in place a new governing coalition in 2028 that will start on the road toward deep structural reform.

To achieve that we need to:

• Build a powerful synergy of mass resistance and electoral work: scale up public protests, workplace actions, civil disobedience, and organized noncompliance to block MAGA attacks and defend democratic rights, including the right to elections that are at least minimally free and fair; and 
• defeat MAGA candidates at all levels in the 2026 and 2028 elections so that an anti-MAGA coalition gains governing power at the federal level and increases its strength in blue, purple and red states.

• Strengthen the progressive wing of the broad anti-MAGA coalition so it can:
• shape the politics of electoral campaigns against MAGA at all levels of government; 
• put its stamp on both the domestic and foreign policy of a post-MAGA federal government; and 
• play the leading role in state-level governing coalitions in at least a few blue states while increasing its political weight in purple and red states. If we don’t gain this leverage and end up with a government that doesn’t deliver substantial change, MAGA will have an opening to come roaring back.

 (A discussion guide for examining these points is available.) 

 

Read the entire piece on the site linked.  Portside.  

https://portside.org/2025-08-22/pushing-maga-out-resistance-ramps

https://portside.org/2025-08-22/pushing-maga-out-resistance-ramps