MAGA movement right now because the right wing is really
eating itself alive.
And it's a direct consequence of the choices they made
years ago.
Now, there is this group called Groipers.
These are white nationalist America-first kind of nativists who follow,
to a degree, Holocaust denying anti-Semite Nick Fuentes.
And they are tearing apart the establishment conservatives.
Now, Nick Fuentes, you might remember, was once welcomed to
dinner by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump later denounced him or said he doesn't know anything
about it or whatever.
And Fuentes now represents a faction that is cannibalizing figures
like Ben Shapiro and Ted Cruz and others who kind
of spent years really building the modern right.
And the funny thing about this is that we warned
them that this would happen.
You know, for a decade, we've been sounding the alarm.
This is the direction Trumpism is heading.
The extremism that is festering is going to become a
problem even for them.
And for a decade, the right would just laugh it
off and they would go, you guys on the left
are hysterical, you're crying liberal tears, everything's fine.
These groupers aren't gonna build any significant power.
And so they made a choice.
They embraced Trump.
Uh, despite it being pretty damn clear who Trump was,
they bent the knee, they uh thought we can control
this so it doesn't become a catastrophe, and they were
catastrophically wrong.
And so now we have a conservative establishment that thought
they could ride this tiger of Trumpism and populism uh
uh into um uh a movement that they would recognize,
and they thought we can use these forces just for
the things we like.
It'll be used for tax cuts, it'll be used for
judges, you know, Trump will push ahead regulations, uh d
deregulation, but they could keep the wackiness at arm's length,
they could keep the Fuentes and all of that stuff
at arm's length.
But history tells us that this is not how radicalization
works.
Once you allow a movement that foments conspiracy theories and
platforms voices that overtly traffic and dehumanization and bigotry becomes
acceptable as long as it's the right bigotry, you can
lose control of where it goes.