Editorial

The Monsters Are Wearing Red Hats: How Maple Street Predicted MAGA’s Paranoia

In The Twilight Zone, Maple Street turns on itself without a single shot fired by the so-called invaders. All it takes is a flicker of lost power and the whisper of suspicion to unravel a neighborhood. Today, the MAGA movement follows the same script—stoking fear, scapegoating neighbors, and igniting chaos not through direct attack, but through seeded distrust. Rod Serling warned that the most dangerous monsters are not external enemies, but internal fractures. And as red hats replace pitchforks and comment sections replace front porches, America’s greatest threat may still be the fear of one another. Continue reading