Posted on 08/13/2025 4:35:48 AM PDT by texas booster
The last election shattered the complacency of the ruling class. For the first time in a long time, the men and women who believed that the future belonged to them, no longer did. The culture war, they began admitting in the post-election moratoriums, had gone against them. They had not just lost an election, they had fallen away from the zeitgeist into their own echo chamber.
And no one wanted what they were selling.
The Democrats and the larger movement around them has stumbled trying to make a comeback. But they have had a consistent strategy beyond the clumsy efforts to revive the BLM riots as the ICE riots or to file endless lawsuits that even liberal Supreme Court justices are growing tired of, and that is to fracture the successful coalition that President Trump built.
Ever since Trump took office, the media, which acts as the ideological attack dog for the movement, has been trying to find wedge issues. Some have been conventional economic ones meant to split away the emerging working class base, but others are ideological wedge issues targeted at dividing MAGA, first around foreign policy, and then around Jeffrey Epstein.
The issues themselves are less important than what they reveal about Democrat tactics.
The Left has closely analyzed the Trump coalition, found weak points and is running information operations to exploit those weaknesses and, when successful, playing divide and conquer. It belatedly figured out that MAGA, unlike past Republican coalitions, was virtually invulnerable to external criticism, shaming and moral blackmail because it was unconcerned with respectability.
Shaming Trump supporters no longer worked because MAGA did not care what the media or anyone outside the movement thought. Or at least that was supposed to be how it worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Early on it became obvious that the ‘leak’ problem that had pervaded the first Trump administration was far from gone. The media enjoyed no shortage of leaks, many of them coming from a Koch libertarian faction that had tried to seize control over foreign policy and has now spent months trying to drive out Secretary of Defense Hegseth after he fired the leakers.
Beyond the anonymous leakers from inside and outside the administration, certain named personalities have taken to texting the media their criticisms of President Trump and his administration. These figures want the mantle of MAGA even as they aid Politico and the New York Times in attacking the administration. Rather than elevating themselves by aiding the media, they’re demonstrating their untrustworthiness to be leading figures in the movement.
Still all of this was small potatoes until a small group of leftists, libertarians and far-righters began vocally claiming that there was a ‘split’ among MAGA on Israel and Iran. Polls pretty clearly showed that there was no split, but as long as the media could keep on quoting influencers like Tucker Carlson and a handful of more obscure figures, along with leftists like Joe Rogan who had briefly glommed on to MAGA, they could manufacture stories about a split.
Epstein was more damaging because it was and is a legitimate split. The sense of anger and betrayal is real, and while it’s misdirected at Trump, it damaged the movement, sabotaged the legislative agenda and depending on the electoral outcome going forward, that may make the difference between national survival and national destruction. And it was also the first time that the losers of 2024 felt like they had won a culture war victory and had a pathway forward.
Democrats, including those who had previously shown no interest in the Epstein saga, embraced it because for the first time they had hit a vulnerable point. They keep calling for the ‘release of the Epstein files’ not because they have any concern about Epstein’s victims, because they care about what’s in the files or because they even know anything about the subject, but because it’s the first line of attack that legitimately hurt President Trump.
And it hurt Trump by splitting the MAGA movement.
That is the larger objective here. And it is important to be aware of that strategy in play because while some of the concerns and debates on various issues are legitimate, some are being advanced by paid influencers and operatives, along with bot armies, to split the movement.
The leftist strategy contains an enormous admission. And the admission is that they have no way forward as a national movement except by splitting the MAGA movement. It’s not a competition, but a zero sum game in which the Left does not have enough room to grow because its message has become fundamentally alienating to even sections of its base. ...
That doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for debate or lobbying for one approach or another. Those who believe President Trump is making the wrong decision on an issue should say. But when leftists hop on their bandwagon, they should get off, and they should never cooperate or coordinate with leftist media operations. That’s no longer an argument: that’s treason.
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I’ve noticed that all the liberal magazines talk about the great Maga split. As if I care at all about Elon with his autism. Don’t care. As the kids say— “Elon gots the tism “
I WILL ENJOY ELON WITH HIS “AUTISM” ALL DAY LONG COMPARED TO BIDEN & HIS DEMENTIA & PERVERSIONS
And the dem trolls here at FR and doing their best to stir up trouble.
My feelings exactly.
I regret to confirm that that is an incredibly easy thing to do.
One only needs to look here at FR and myself.
I may be a critic of certain (non)actions by this administration, but it doesn’t merit the flaming coming from others which profoundly demonstrate such divisions.
Whomever leaves MAGA, was never MAGA!
That is all they have. They cannot campaign on the issues.
It brings to mind that old saying which I have paraphrased:
""If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the people on your side, pound the people's emotions. If neither is on your side, pound the table."
I stopped believing a long time ago that anything was going to drive a stake through the heart of the Left. Like poverty, the Left and their divisive ideas, aimed at gullible and weak-minded people who will swallow it, will always be with us.
But if we can get back into the White House and gain some seats in 2028, we have a chance to make this change more enduring. And if we can make the Left walk around in the wilderness for decades the way they have done to us, all the better.
Until recently, Musk, Massie, and Bannon were assembling the circular firing squads. And Trump himself was making unity worse with his sometimes out-of-control mouth.
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Whomever leaves MAGA, was never MAGA!
A good question to ask is what does MAGA mean to you. This helps to clarify and unite.
What is a conservative?
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
MAGA/Conservativism is a philosophy, a way of thinking. Print out the above 10 points, put them on the wall, read them outload and give to others.
Too many think MAGA is just one point. The wall, no one is arrested or convicted, and other who want their lollipop.
back to the article. Jesus came to unite and Jesus came to divide. HOw is that possible? The point of division and unification is the same.
It is very important we understand those points in this worldly situation and talk about them with others.
A very weak stretch there.
And the dem trolls here at FR and doing their best to stir up trouble.
For the dem trolls and world wide Karens, i say, “If you’re not MAGA/ MAHA, Good For You (GFY).”
There’s plenty of division in the Right... we disagree fervently on many things... and we may even have a big schism upcoming... but it won’t happen until after the DNC is out of business, and replaced with at least semi-rational people.
Don’t forget about the RINOs and those who support candidates with ideologies that go against the U S. Constitution.
When I left, TSA was cool about me passing through with a FROZEN bottle of water. On the return, a youngish TSA Nazi was just sure they HAD to confiscate it.
When I had safely gathered up all my things (they actually let the FROZEN bottle in the backpack through), I told him that FROZEN water was totally OK per their own regulations.
It did nothing to change his mind because THEIR airport left it up to THEIR discretion, or so he claimed. I told him attitudes like his were exactly why the country elected Trump and thanks for pushing more people toward MAGA. He gave me a smarmy little comment and a smarmy little smirk.
I turned around and gave him a Nazi salute and shouted "Seig! Heil!" and went on my way. The look on his face was priceless.
Yeah, I might have missed my flight for doing that, but I'm 69 years old and couldn't resist. Judging by his looks, I'd guess he joined the TSA in the last three years or so because he's a Democrat Nazi. So I am NOT sorry!
Let them think they’re dividing us. They ain’t dividin nothin!
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