As the holiday season approaches, the movement once hailed for its monolithic devotion finds itself wrestling with the very internal divisions its architects sought to prevent.
Details:
- The MAGA movement is engulfed in a deepening "civil war," with factions clashing despite attempts to unite against perceived external "bogeymen."
- Vice President Vance’s call for internal peace against a "radical leftist movement" echoes colonial efforts to unify amidst persistent domestic disagreements.
- Rifts over Israel aid, H-1B visas, and Epstein probe expose "jealousies, pride, separate views" within the base.
- This internal paralysis, despite identified external threats, starkly illustrates the founders' warnings on the pervasive perils of disunion.
Why it Matters:
The constant internal strife within MAGA reflects a profound historical vulnerability: the failure of a self-proclaimed righteous cause to maintain the very unity it extols. As John Dickinson famously wrote, "By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." This persistent factionalism threatens to undermine not just the movement's electoral prospects, but its foundational coherence, rendering it ineffective against the very forces it claims to oppose. For a movement that positions itself as the sole bulwark against national decline, its internal "civil war" presents a more insidious threat than any external "bogeyman." The inability to transcend "jealousies, pride, separate views, and clashing pretensions," as the Federalist Papers warned, creates a paralysis where collective action becomes impossible. This internal erosion of purpose risks a historical echo far more profound than any contemporary squabble: the slow, agonizing descent into irrelevance for lack of a coherent, unified national will.