Behind the 'hot dog' MAGA men afraid of their own 'radical' movement (opens in new tab)

Zack Beauchamp has a novel metaphor for their attempts to wriggle out of responsibility for their own movement’s actions: “It’s a real-life version of the famous sketch on Tim Robinson’s show I Think You Should Leave, where a hot-dog-shaped car crashes into a storefront and a man in a hot dog suit says, ‘We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.’”The MAGA infighting, asserts Beauchamp, is being fueled by such “hot dog men,” and there is no shortage of examples. “In 2017, US Rep. Thomas M...