Angie believes that wearing Maga-coded merch is a form of performative compensation used by people who lack genuine toughness.

“I'm talking about we're on an airplane and you see a guy and um he's got on some sort of shirt that has some sort of bastardization of the American flag and it's got you know like the blue line or it's got like language in it like I'm a lion I'm a big boy I'm a tough guy and you see this Maga Cod me”