It may seem hyperbolic to say that what MAGA has in store for us would be three times more evil and brutal than the Nazi Holocaust. But when you consider how long the pressure of right wing hate has been building up for decades with no way to release it, the prediction begins to sound realistic. Sixty years of bottled-up MAGA hate is like having dumped a whole sleeve of Mentos into a 64 ounce bottle of Diet Coke, screwing the cap on tight, and shaking it long and hard.

Shaking up all that fizz and pressure over the years were leaps and bounds of individual rights and safeguards of minority groups such as these:

1963 – Supreme Court, in Abington v. Schempp, protects religious minorities from being “othered” by school-sponsored religious exercises that made them feel like outsiders. This upholding of minority rights started the snowball of right wing backlash against liberty on its downhill path.

1965 – In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to privacy included the right to use contraception. Idi Amin Jr., I mean uncle Clarence Thomas is still boiling mad about that one.

1973 – Supreme Court hands down Roe v. Wade, protecting abortion rights.

1992 – Planned Parenthood v. Casey made MAGA’s blood boil over with this single sentence from the opinion of the Court: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” That simple sentence drove the brutal MAGA theocrat James Dobson right over the edge. Among his thousand-plus venomous, hateful, angry words he wrote this: “Tragically, the words written by Supreme Court Justices O’Connor, Kennedy and Souter in the Casey decision stand in stark contrast to that historic acknowledgment of God. They said, ‘At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.’”

2003 – In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court declares sodomy laws unconstitutional.

2015 – The Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges declares that same-sex marriage is a Constitutionally protected right.

2020 – The Supreme Court, surprisingly led by Neil Gorsuch, ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employers from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation or transgender status.

For decades, the Supreme Court, in its earlier, uncorrupted state, was protecting and upholding freedom after freedom, individual right after individual right. With each new ruling that upheld basic rights and liberties, the Venusian pressures inside the bottle of right wing rage built up more and more.

Keep in mind that these sons of bitches can and do hold on to grudges for centuries on end. The slaughter of the Amalekites described in 1 Samuel 15 of the Christian Bible was the result of an eternal and undiminished grudge: the slaughter of Amalekite children and infants was retaliation for something that had allegedly been perpetrated 400 years prior. Some argue that the current MAGA grudge dates back to the Civil War.

MAGA can hold grudges for thousands of years, even millions of years. The strongest fundamental force in the MAGA universe is the Grudge Force.

For decades, our then-legitimate Supreme Court shielded our rights and liberties against the mounting pressure of right wing rage and hate like the hull of a bathyscaphe holding back the crushing pressures of the deep sea as it explored ever deeper ocean depths.

The sudden tsunami of vindictive, intentionally cruel legislative overkill that followed the overturning of Roe v. Wade gave us a taste of the sheer, murderous savagery that MAGA is capable of.

Give MAGA full power, and all of that bottled-up right wing hate will be explosively unleashed all at once, smashing our rights and liberties along with the lives of at least 18,000,000 Americans – the estimated size of the LGBTQ community – out of existence faster than the implosion of the Titan Submersible.