>>513519662 (OP)He's not wrong. To him, "punk rock" means, essentially, a movement which has principled objections to herd mentality and orthodoxy -- that's essentially what punk is: an aestheticized anti-orthodoxy. You probably disagree, and probably on hair-splitting technicalities, and that's OK; you don't need to agree with that for the purposes of this point, just whether or not that's a decent way of expressing how punk tends to see itself, which it is.
The broader point here is that nothing MAGA expresses is actually all that edgy. It's not the movement of free-thinking radicals it pretends to be. It's a group of people caught up in a social movement which is itself reactionary; and reactionaries are intrinsically counter-revolutionary.
MAGA is the new mainstream, but it has this strange inability to conceive of itself as such. It's a kind of Schrodinger's movement where it has to be super-slick anti-mainstream for its self-image as super-cool radicals but also simultaneously be able to tell anyone within earshot that it won, you lost, and that victory is permanent so you might as well not try to resist.
This is a dissonant worldview, to put it likely, and it's why I like to frame MAGA as the dog that finally caught the car. Now that your guy is in office and now that he's fully and totally surrounded by sycophants who do everything he tells them to do without question... now what? Now that he's sitting on top of a gutted federal system run by people chosen primarily for loyalty, now what? Now that he's actually DOING all of the crazy shit and nothing is actually getting demonstrably better for the average American... now what?
The answer is to turn back into that mainstream consensus you've worked so hard to create. Keep pretending you're the antiheroes doing the "hard realist" (but no no no totally not nihilistic haha) actions which will "save America" from the vicious clutches of Other Tribe. It's all just so nonsensical, herdbrained, and pointless.