Is MAGA in its cringe era?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2026/03/17/maga-cringe-vibe-shift/

A little over a year ago, a new class of Trump supporters arrived in Washington to celebrate the dawn of the president’s second term. They were fashion-conscious, politically incorrect and ready to party. They were heralds of a youthful MAGA coalition that was supposed to be more fun than the young fogies of the old right and the uptight killjoys of the contemporary left.

To his enthusiastic young loyalists, Trump’s narrow yet decisive victory in 2024 marked a cultural realignment that rejected the liberal agenda in favor of something ostensibly cooler: freedom and hedonism, checked only by the (very much desired) encumbrances of traditional family values.

And there’s another problem: “We treat American culture like a giant oppo dossier,” Winters says. “We’re good at attacking culture, not at creating our own.” And in the absence of that, MAGA finds itself falling into a pattern for which they excoriated the left: cancel culture.