What is a Juggalo? Coming up with an answer for that is easy—all you have to do is flash back to Insane Clown Posse’s wildly underrated (which is to say stupidly great) fourth album The Great Milenko.

Once you’ve reminded yourself of the brilliance of “Halls of Illusions”, “Pass Me By”, and “Piggy Pie”, skip to track eight for an all-you-need-to-know primer.

A woozy slow-burner titled “What Is a Juggalo?”, the track operates as an invaluable cheat-sheet for understanding those who worship the grease-painted prophets known as Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope.

In no particular order, we learn that a Juggalo is someone who:

• Gets butt-naked, and then walks through the streets, winking at the freaks with a two-litre stuck in his butt-cheeks
• Walks right in the house where you’re having supper and dips his nuts in your soup
• Might try to put a weave in his nut hair because he could not give a fuck less what a bitch thinks
• Will bust a nut in your macaroni, watching while you sit there and finish up the last bit, ‘cause you’re a stupid-ass dumb fucking idiot

At this point, let's back up for one second. Did we mention the brilliance of "Halls of Illusions"?

All right, as ICP might say, back to reality. 

What’s important today is what a Juggalo is not, namely a MAGA-hat sporting follower of disgraced ex-President Donald J. Trump. And that has Insane Clown Posse fans irked at The Atlantic writer Graeme Wood.  

Reflecting on the White House ouster of the Mango Mussolini in an article called "What to Do With Trumpists", Wood started his piece off with this:

“At noon tomorrow, our four-year experiment in being governed by the political equivalent of the Insane Clown Posse will finally end. It is ending in Juggalo style (some have called it “Trumpalo”), violently and pointlessly, with a handful of deaths, the smearing of various bodily fluids, and a riot on the way out. After any bacchanal of this magnitude, the sober dawn is almost as disorienting as the hysteria itself—and the most urgent task, after wiping the shit from the Capitol hallways, is to prevent a repeat performance.”

That comparison immediately attracted the ire of Violent J. In a text send to the Huffington Post, the ICP MC stated: “I can’t believe TheAtlantic.com would hire a writer, presumably for his expertise in journalism who’s that off the mark, as well as an editor for his or her fact checking abilities who obviously lives within a reality separate from our own when it comes to defining who Juggalos truly are and what they’re about…”

Juggalos might eat Monopoly and shit out Connect Four, but they clearly don’t shit on the floor of the Capitol.

Violent J then followed that up with another text where he complained that Greene is the kind of person who’d steal the last bottle of Pineapple Faygo from a Pam-huffing Detroit-trailer-park welfare mom.

“The truth is it fuckin’ hurts and [it’s] scary seeing professional adults acting like savage bullies…," Violent J texted, "sad little bullshit like this makes me question the media in general and [lose] a little faith in just about [everything] I fuckin read!”

His larger point? While they might be fucking lunatics who’ll jump out of 10-storey windows with ropes attached to their dicks, Juggalos are compassionate and caring human beings—providing that you are down with the clown.

Hell, they even cancelled 2020’s Gathering of the Juggalos out of concern for each other in a world under siege from COVID-19. The Trumpists, meanwhile, gathered en masse for their Capitol riot, with masks optional for everyone except for the right-wing's snowflake faction. Which wasn't a great idea once the FBI started sifting through post-insurrection social media posts. 

Violent J's anger was rooted in the fact that Juggalos have nothing to do with Trumpists. There's little evidence that they're interested in storming the U.S. Capitol to throw Duck Dynasty-brand fire extinguishers at police, dressing up like a Burning Man version of Erik the Red, or huffing bear spray with the guitarist from Iced Earth. 

Juggalos will, however, drink like a fish, start huggin’ people like a drunk bitch, begin picking fights with their best friends, and then start with the huggin’ again.

But that’s hardly enough to liken them to the Trumpists of the world, as Juggalos have taken to Wood’s Twitter account to make clear.

Here’s what those who are down with the clown have to say. I-C-Fucking-P!

 https://twitter.com/HumbleAmong/status/1351900145017888768