By Zeteo
Photos: YouTube Screenshots
The authoritarian alphabet soup that is the MAGA GOP is finally, at long last, circling the drain.
Why? What could have possibly, POSSIBLY, brought this about?
No, it’s not President Donald Trump’s tariff regime that has done nothing but further exacerbate inflation and the broader cost-of-living crisis in this country. No, it’s not Trump’s steadfast defense of the H1-B visa program, because explicitly, in his words, the United States does not have people with “certain talents” to fill high-paying, healthcare-attached, white-collar jobs. No, it’s not even because of Trump’s utterly bizarre handling of the Epstein files, which, to be clear, has been the single most disastrous, coalition-shattering brouhaha of modern American politics.
The chief catalyst for MAGA’s utter implosion can be summed up by one man: Nick Fuentes. Yes, THAT Nick Fuentes. The white supremacist, homosexual-hating, Holocaust-denying Nick Fuentes.
Late last month, ‘First Draft’ detailed how Fuentes and his viral tête-à-tête with failed Fox host Tucker Carlson rocked the right to its core. It ignited a true and proper civil war, with the aforementioned Fuentes and Carlson, alongside the Heritage Foundation, and Candace Owens vs. Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and representatives of the Republican Old Guard like Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.
What we are witnessing, like in a cliché, spooky-season horror flick, is a zombiefied return of an ancient and once-banished faction of the American right trying to reassert control over the party.
I speak of the bitter, isolationist, ethnocentrist, anti-immigrant, anti-queer, and extremely, EXTREMELY antisemitic revanchist conservatism of Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Pat Buchanan. I must reiterate: this is by NO means a new manifestation of reactionary bigotry.
This is a very old, very tired, and fundamentally ugly ideology — but one that’s nevertheless routinely weaponized by machiavellian (if not all-out sociopathic) characters throughout history on the right.
Allow me to prove my case…
Please consider this quote from a major, MAJOR Republican player in contemporary politics with regard to one of the previously mentioned fathers of the modern far-right, Pat Buchanan: “He’s a Hitler lover. I guess he’s an antisemite. He doesn’t like the Blacks. He doesn’t like the gays. It’s just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy.”
Any guesses?
That was your president, Donald J. Trump, in 1999.
This was Trump just last year: “There was a man, conservative man, Pat Buchanan, a good guy, conservative guy… good guy, wow!”
Yeah… No wonder Cheeto Benito enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with Nick Fuentes.
Mark my words, friends, the GOP’s battle of tomorrow is not MAGA Trumpists versus the conservatives of old; it’s out-and-out Jew-hating, neo-Nazi fascists versus those who pretend they are not.
But I digress…
The battle of tomorrow is the battle of tomorrow. MAGA is dead today. Let me play a sad song on the world’s smallest violin.
