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The Fracture Isn't a --------- a Sorting

What we're witnessing inside American conservatism is not a revolt against MAGA.

It's a sorting process.

Not between left and right.
Not between establishment and outsider.

But between those who still believe democracy imposes limits"and those who believe limits are optional if power is within reach.

The public implosions.
The loyalty tests.
The factional warfare.
The quiet exits and sudden resignations.

These aren't isolated dramas.
They are symptoms of the same structural failure.

And when enforcement mechanisms stop working"when norms are no longer enforced internally"movements don't self-correct?

They fracture.

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The Integrity Test
This is what ties Heritage, Greene, and Pence together.

• Heritage shows what happens when legitimacy is abandoned.


• Greene shows what happens when loyalty stops paying off.


• Pence marks the last broadly recognized boundary before obligation itself became betrayal.

Together, they expose the integrity test now reshaping the American right:

Whether conservatism still recognizes limits on power.
Or whether power itself has become the organizing principle.

This isn't about policy direction.

It's about legitimacy.