I’m not suggesting anyone pluck a few living Trump supporters from a MAGA rally and euthanize them in order to autopsy their brains in the interest of science.

It wouldn’t be difficult for undertakers to identify the most extreme MAGAs. They proudly display MAGA flags and call themselves Ultra MAGA and even semi-fascist (below, my composite).

While it may seem unfathomable to many of them, unlike Trump who they think will live forever, they are not immortal. Some of them will die and some of them may end up on an autopsy table.

This would be a great opportunity for pathologists to perform real life, make that real death, political/medical autopsies to try to figure out why so many people worship Trump. Perhaps if their brains were sliced and analyzed medical experts, as opposed to mental health experts who have already tried to figure this out, can determine whether there’s actually something unique to the MAGA brain that sets people who have one apart from those who don’t.

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