Rep. Nancy Mace appeared in a panel on CNN. In the course of the discussion she kept mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name, this despite, or, maybe because of repeated corrections by the other panelists. The final result of their efforts is reported as: “Mace pushed back, saying she would ‘say Kamala’s name any way that I want to.’ She mispronounced Harris’s name again as she spoke.”

Now Rep. Mace’s insistence on “any way that I want to” is as childish as anything we might expect from Mace’s leader, Donald Trump. But there is more than simple childishness here.

“Any way that I want to” could be a slogan or motto for the whole MAGA enterprise and summarizes their ultimate corruption of American “freedom.” Reality does not matter, truth does not matter, decency does not matter, for I’m free to act and think and believe “any way that I want to.”

This reminds me of a woman with whom I served on a jury. The rest of the jury were for finding the obviously guilty man guilty. She held out, and all arguments based on facts and logic could not bring her to re-consider her position because, she said: “That’s how I feel!” That is to say: “I don’t care what the reality of the situation may be, I’ll act as if it were the way I want it to be.”