MAGA's war within: Right-wing purity tests

Axios ^ | Nov 2, 2025 | Tal Axelrod

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Zoom out: For now, MAGA is being held together by Trump's personality. But open disagreement has broken out over who should, and shouldn't, be accepted under its tent.

U.S. support for Israel's operations in Gaza inflamed America First diehards and hardened Israel's MAGA allies. The online divisions have raged during the tenuous ceasefire, including tropes over Jews' supposed disproportionate influence in the U.S.

A leaked group chat from New York State Young Republicans included racist comments and messages from a Trump administration nominee declaring he had a "Nazi streak." The revelation sparked debates over who — if anyone — should be "canceled" from MAGA.

So a movement rooted in railing against people getting canceled by political correctness is now tied in knots over its own membership. That dynamic was clear this week when white nationalist Nick Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast for an amiable two-hour interview.

Critics blasted Carlson for platforming Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who on Carlson's podcast referred to "organized Jewry."

Allies of Turning Point USA — the group founded by the late Charlie Kirk and embraced by Trump and Vice President Vance — were particularly blunt in hammering Carlson. They noted that Kirk befriended Carlson but sought to distance MAGA from Fuentes.

What they're saying: Within MAGA, battle lines are being drawn over how supportive Trump followers should be, or how skeptical they should be of foreign entanglements.

Laura Loomer — a Trump loyalist and MAGA enforcer, and vocal Israel supporter — told Axios: "I always said that you had to be a Trump loyalist and America first. But there are people out there that say that I don't belong in MAGA because I'm Jewish."

[dfwgator]

And now the same will happen in the Democratic Party with Mamdani’s win.

I see revolt in both parties, that will lead to a new party coming out of it.

[dpetty121263]

LOL no I am a pro Trump man but you sometimes have to correct someone not doing right...Trump has been\is off course.

[TexasGator]

Thanks for claiming you are smarter than Trump ...