What is MAGA? - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry

In short, it isn't conservative, populist or even Republican. 

It has elements of all of those, but at its root, it is simply an anti-progressivism movement. - Michael Smith

MAGA is not really a populist movement, at least in the traditional concept of populism...

I think the easiest way to understand both the division – and strength - within MAGA is this: it is not conservative, moderate, or even Republican, what it is, is anti-progressive. 

• It has united people from across the political spectrum, most of whom agree on only one thing – that the collectivist progressivism that has coalesced within the modern Democrat Party is anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-reason, anti-science, and is destructive to prosperity and a positive future.
• Because MAGA is a movement of common sense for common people, the Democrats routinely characterize MAGA supporters as ignorant, stupid, and uneducated. 
• Democrats see themselves as elites who look to “intellectuals” to provide the “authority” upon which their infinite appeals to authority (a logical fallacy) depend...