The MAGA ethic celebrates dehumanization. It is lawless, crude, and combative. Its entire ecosystem"social media, podcasts, and talk radio"is committed to spreading lies and conspiracy theories, to stoking rage and resentment. The disciples of the MAGA movement define themselves by what they hate much more than by what they love. They pursue culture wars with revolutionary zeal even as they vandalize our civic culture. If a public figure today talked the way conservatives once talked"about the virtue of compassion; about the importance of good character in our leaders and resisting our baser impulses; about the need to encourage courtesy and decency, and refine manners and morals"they would be mocked as woke, as weak, as a "cuck."