MAGA implodes: Will Israel’s power over Washington collapse next? |
The MAGA empire has turned inward. Its warriors no longer march shoulder to shoulder in lockstep but carve at one another like rival warlords. The movement that once roared in unison now splits along a single, explosive fault line: America First versus Israel First. Two convictions, two armies now face each other inside the same ideological fortress, each convinced it alone holds the mandate of destiny. On one side stands Steve Bannon — raw, furious, unapologetically nationalist. On the other stands Ben Shapiro — polished, venomous, the cultural enforcer of unyielding loyalty to Israel. The alliance that once dominated the American right is devouring itself at an increasing pace. What was once unfathomable is now undeniable: the eighty-year consensus that Israel dictates the boundaries of conservative politics is cracking apart, and the reverberating tremor is shaking the very columns of American power.
The explosion happened in public, not whispered in back rooms or podcasts, but detonated onstage at the first Turning Point USA conference after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It should have been a sombre moment of unity. Instead, the air stiffened with accusations. Ben Shapiro, self-appointed guardian of ideological purity, initiated his scorched-earth tirade. Unabashedly, he fired the first salvo. He spat contempt at Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Steve Bannon himself. He called them “charlatans” and accused them of extremism. But beneath the theatrics lay the real crime he could not forgive; they dared even entertain the suggestion that American loyalty to Israel is not beyond question. The Israel First Rubicon had been crossed. And Shapiro — furious, brittle, panicked — declared ideological jihad.
Bannon’s deafening reply was not a rebuttal. It was a devastating indictment. He took the same stage and drove a sharp spike through the heart of the........