The loudness of MAGA distracts from its deeper harm: disconnection. Communities under immigration siege don’t just fear raids—they lose trust, school attendance drops, gardens go untended, language fades. The small, rooted rituals that hold people together? They wither under fear.

When the state treats identity as a threat, it’s not policy. It’s spiritual erosion.

MAGA may see these things as noise. But for many, they are survival.