Monday, December 29, 2025

MAGA's Circular Firing Squad Intensifies

The MAGA movement has captured nearly every lever of power that matters in American life. Conservatives control the Supreme Court and dominate most red-state legislatures, while Donald Trump commands a compliant Republican Congress and maintains a suffocating grip on the GOP's internal machinery. And yet, as 2025 winds down, the MAGA base is restless. Loyalists are complaining, right-wing influencers are sniping at Cabinet officials and now top Trump appointees are snapping back in public, often with visible contempt for the very people who put them there.

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... MAGA promised domination. While Trump's second term has dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion programs with surgical precision and rolled out never-ending culture wars, the president is facing a rebellion of unmet expectations. A coalition that once prided itself on lockstep loyalty is fracturing into factions: the true believers who demand mass arrests and deportations yesterday, the GOP careerists urging patience and "process," and the right-wing influencers who gin up rage for profit.

To be clear, there is no ideological disagreement in any meaningful sense. Instead there is a sense of rage that right-wing grievance doesn't automatically deliver results. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 07:03 PM

@#1 ... Instead there is a sense of rage that right-wing grievance doesn't automatically deliver results. ...

imo, that's a good observation in the article.

A politician who tries (and may get) votes because of the anger and victimization they stoked in their supporters does not seem to translate into actual actions by those politicians. Indeed, the stoking seems to be a means to attain the office, and then just do what the office-seeker wants to do. Constituents no longer matter, because the election was won.


Case in point, Pres trump's unlawful demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Was that of more benefit his MAGA base, or his ego?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-29 07:09 PM

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