MAGA Clings To Darth Vader As It Braces For Election Results

You do not have to want Democrats to sweep the 2026 election to think that Republicans may have done an historically poor job of trying to appeal to the basic hopes and interests of average voters. The latest evidence we have for that is a bizarre surge in online support among various pockets of MAGA world for Star Wars’ Anakin Skywalker, AKA Darth Vader . “Yes, it seems that while the fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) will remain shut down for the foreseeable future, MAGA conservatives are picking up the slack, using the last hours before the…