What’s the one thing that every pundit and certified member of the Fourth Estate knows? Why, it’s that MAGA is finished.
How many stories have we been treated to about ‘the fracturing of MAGA?’ NPR knows it, Politico intuited it, Salon bet on it and the New Republic salivated over it. ‘Trump’s MAGA Base Splits Dramatically,’ that anti-Trump orifice recently crowed. ‘New poll shows Donald Trump’s support continues to drop.’ Then of course there is the New York Times, which has predicted and rejoiced in the death of MAGA again and again.
That is – that was – the narrative. What is the reality? Yesterday’s primaries tell a very different – in fact, contradictory – story. MAGA’s vitality was reaffirmed, as was President Trump’s potency as a political imprimatur. Across the board, a majority of the candidates he endorsed trounced their Republican in name only (RINO) rivals. At least 26 MAGA Republicans won last night. Indiana, Michigan, Texas, North Carolina. Wherever there was a primary, MAGA triumphed. In Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy took some 85 per cent of the vote, winning in every single county.
Those are the facts. What is their significance? I think Kurt Schlichter is correct. He wrote:
MAGA’s vitality has been reaffirmed
Inevitably the RINOs will take the wrong lesson from tonight’s brutal discipline. They will think that because they personally offended Trump, they got defeated. That’s not it. Trump is not our leader. He is our avatar. You dummies screwed with the base, and the base, not Donald Trump, made you pay.
Right on cue, the New York Times corroborated Schlichter’s prediction. ‘Rather than a contest between moderates and conservatives,’ this fish wrap of record intoned, ‘the primaries became a test of how much deference Republicans owe Mr. Trump and how much control the President holds over rank-and-file voters.’
I would say that this stunning victory is a wake-up call for RINOs, but it isn’t. Their narcolepsy is terminal. The same can be said of the Democratic party, which, in abandoning their country, also abandoned their electoral prospects. If you don’t know the work of the woman who writes under the name ‘LHGray’, you should. She is as perceptive as she is amusing, though her diction is not for the faint of heart. ‘The Democratic party, as it staggers toward the 2026 midterms,’ she wrote in response to last night’s political dégringolade, ‘is not merely losing.’
It is structurally, psychologically, and philosophically finished… a once-formidable machine reduced to a necrotic loop of obsession, fantasy, and self-sabotage. And the republic is not mourning the loss. It is moving on without them.
The Democrats built this cage. Now they will live inside it. Indiana? A bloodbath… RINOs who dared defy the redistricting will of the people got eviscerated.
All this is true. MAGA isn’t finished. In the important work of eviscerating the Democratic party, it’s just getting started. And let me add that painful process couldn’t happen to a more deserving cohort. Tertullian says that among the pleasures enjoyed by the blessed in paradise is the spectacle of the sufferings of the damned. That celebration of Schadenfreude was later repudiated by the Church, but every red-blooded man and woman will recognise and smile at its psychological acuity.
