# Is MAGA a fifth column? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [September 7, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-maga-a-fifth-column/1006924 "2024-09-07T20:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-maga-a-fifth-column/1006924/33 "2024-09-16T17:25:35Z")
I’m pretty sure those two count as “useful idiots”. Both in the sense of the rhetorical phrase and in the literal sense of the two words. With emphasis on the latter of the two words. There is also this (rather misleadingly titled) recent thread on-point: > [@Current avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-avatar/1007271): > > For feces and yuks I looked into the two bon vivants gracing my current avatar (the painfully-smiling “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat”-t-shirted gentlemen). Buddy on right apparently croaked in hospice not five months after the photo taken, at a rally for Donnie in Lewis Center, Ohio. Sometimes an absence of something can speak volumes, and if your obit gives nothing but statistical info, like his, it at least gets you wondering. As for buddy on left (James Timothy “Tim” Alicie - whoa,… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-maga-a-fifth-column/1006924)._