# What's missing/awry/disturbing about people's lives that MAGA/hard-right populism is so attractive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 6, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-missing-awry-disturbing-about-peoples-lives-that-maga-hard-right-populism-is-so-attractive/1027436 "2026-02-06T14:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 52
**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:** [February 7, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-missing-awry-disturbing-about-peoples-lives-that-maga-hard-right-populism-is-so-attractive/1027436/52 "2026-02-07T12:18:43Z")
Closely related thread started today that might be of interest to people in this thread: > [@Why does the MAGA/right see globalism as a bad thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-maga-right-see-globalism-as-a-bad-thing/1027458): > > Something I’ve seen and heard from the right is that “globalism” and “global elites” are somehow evil or something of that nature. Now, to me, all of this life thing should be about the success and dignity of the human species (or “the human project” as I once heard it referred to on a current affairs show), and to me that depends on globalism, diversity, acceptance etc etc, otherwise we’re just going to kill each other at some point. Why do they hate this so much? Is it basically because they’… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-missing-awry-disturbing-about-peoples-lives-that-maga-hard-right-populism-is-so-attractive/1027436)._