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The Spiritual Perspective

Can MAGA People Be Spiritual? Get The Spiritual Perspective

The Spiritual Perspective

Light Watkins

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9981 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Can you be a spiritual person and a Trump supporter? Dive into a nuanced conversation that challenges the common stereotypes about spirituality and political beliefs. Explore the deep spiritual question of how to hold multiple contradictory truths in our awareness and the true essence of spirituality beyond political labels. This episode will make you rethink your perspectives on judgment, understanding, and the inherent contradictions in life. Send us a text message. We'd love to hear from y...

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0:00.0

Can you be a spiritual person and a Trump supporter?

0:05.0

In other words, is it possible to be deeply connected to your inner work and practice meditation and believe in higher consciousness while also identifying as MAGA?

0:18.0

Or is that somehow oxymoronic?

0:28.6

And I'm posing this question because for a lot of people, especially a lot of so-called spiritual people, the answer seems obvious. Of course you can't be MAGA and be spiritual, right? Spiritual

0:35.0

people are all about peace and love and unity, whereas Maga is about

0:41.2

division and power and disruption. Therefore, how can you be spiritual and someone who supports

0:49.1

Trump? When most of us think of spirituality, we picture someone who may even reject organized religion,

0:57.4

at least the fundamentalist version of organized religion, and maybe we embrace practices like yoga and meditation.

1:05.3

It's someone who reads self-help books and spiritual books, someone who make on a silent retreat, someone who wears

1:12.9

mala beads instead of a red maga hat, someone who identifies maybe as a vegetarian.

1:19.0

And they talk a lot about climate change and saving the animals.

1:23.4

Maybe they have a soft voice, maybe they're pacifists.

1:27.0

Maybe they talk a lot about things like energy and healing.

1:31.9

But I would argue that from a spiritual perspective, none of those behaviors or characteristics

1:38.6

are what actually makes someone, quotes, spiritual.

1:43.2

But we'll get back to that in just one second. First, let's

1:46.5

break down what it means to be Maga. So Maga stands for Make America Great Again. And it's usually

1:54.1

someone who identifies as a Trump supporter. For that type of person, what's usually important is

2:00.4

they believe strongly in American exceptionalism.

2:04.6

They usually don't like political elitists.

2:07.6

They want to help protect U.S. jobs.

2:10.3

MAGA people oftentimes advocate for strict immigration enforcement and secure borders.

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