Seriously they make so many of the same arguments sometimes that I question whether or not .ml isnt a poe instance of some kind.
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Despite their claims to the contrary, MAGA and tankies are closely related, in the same way that the most dedicated Nazis in East Germany often became the most dedicated Stalinists.
Both are utterly uninterested in serious discussions of policy; identity is what matters to them. Racial identity to MAGA, class identity to tankies, but both share disinterest in data or results, relying on what is 'intuitive' to their axioms. Ultimately, this is why any minority support from tankies is only 'skin-deep'; it only matters to them insofar as it supports or refutes their class-based axioms.
I think you missed the most crucial similarity which is that they both look to mold their views and actions around those of their leaders without any skepticism. This is what leads to the above traits.
While true once they get their ~~replacement daddy~~ Great Leader, in the absence of a suitable leader, they create their own groupthink. Tankies mostly lack leaders, instead passing around bad ideas like an STD; likewise, before Trump, the ultra-reactionaries in the US were more-than-willing to turn on their former leaders and idols for not following the stream-of-consciousness groupthink they'd developed, hence Rubio going from a darling of the Tea Party to a RINO in record time, despite becoming no less cretinous in that time.
Very well put.
Nice way of saying they are emotional reactionaries led around by their fee fees.