The MAGA Crack-Up Is Overrated. MAGA Is Here to Stay.

There is an emerging conventional wisdom that MAGA is eating itself alive with internecine warfare between various politicians, pundits, thought leaders. People also point to the diminution of Trump as a tired, spent force as a reason for celebration. They want hope in a time when there seems like none, and this jockeying for the crown even as the king falls asleep in his chair while his minions fawn over his vitality and vigor seems to offer it.

Conservative powerhouses Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson are at each other’s throats over Israel. Open antisemite and fascist Nick Fuentes (who hates Shapiro and the late Charlie Kirk) is quickly becoming a mainstream enough thought leader to be a subject for The New York Times, while Rolling Stone proclaims that Fuentes has “won.” At the same time, disgraced alt-right and self-proclaimed ex-gay Milo Yiannopoulos has accused Charlie Kirk and Benny Johnson of being gay.

Some will point to Republican politicians bucking Trump as a reason to believe that the whole circus tent is about to collapse. Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Congress, and it is rumored that Nancy Mace (who seems to be struggling with