Kind of agree and kind of disagree, I think the key idea you do touch on is that it is definitely a false memory of a golden age that never existed, and it would probably be more safely placed in the 50s than the 40s. They are obsessed with the things you list, but partially because those are the things preventing America from reclaiming its former glory. They need to get rid of the Mexicans, taxes, pedos, so they can make America great again and every family will be a Norman Rockwell painting without the bad things causing moral and economic decay, and everyone will pray to Jesus and small businesses will thrive just like this lost golden age.
This belief in a previous ideal that has decayed is what allows them to be flag humpers while simultaneously hating America as it currently is constituted.
Kind of agree and kind of disagree, I think the key idea you do touch on is that it is definitely a false memory of a golden age that never existed, and it would probably be more safely placed in the 50s than the 40s. They are obsessed with the things you list, but partially because those are the things preventing America from reclaiming its former glory. They need to get rid of the Mexicans, taxes, pedos, so they can make America great again and every family will be a Norman Rockwell painting without the bad things causing moral and economic decay, and everyone will pray to Jesus and small businesses will thrive just like this lost golden age.
This belief in a previous ideal that has decayed is what allows them to be flag humpers while simultaneously hating America as it currently is constituted.