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by Cliff Schecter
It was bound to happen. When every member of your movement has a God complex, sooner or later someone tries to crucify the other.
This is what has become of MAGA, the nice little acronym for Make America Great Again, a slogan Trump borrowed straight from Mussolini, who claimed he’d make Italy great again. And really that’s all you ever needed to know about Trump. And the movement he built in his bloated, tangerine-tinted image.
MAGA has quite purposely attracted the worst among us, the unhinged, fame-hungry the narcissists—the kinda people who see empathy as weakness and cruelty as content. And then, quelle surprise, the monsters eventually start eating each other.
So welcome my friends to the great MAGA meltdown, starring Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG): two human tire fires locked in a death match over who gets to be the face of America’s latest psychotic break.
For years, Greene was Trump’s most devoted disciple. His high priestess of victimization fantasies. His walking, talking, COVID-quacking, Jewish-laser ducking, Facebook comment section.
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She wept over his mugshot (didn’t you?). Called January 6th a “patriot protest.” Wore his persecution like Trump Cologne. But in a self-contained land of the pathologically egocentric, loyalty’s a one-way street ending at a cliff. So when MTG suddenly started saying sane things—which has had many of us scratching our heads—Trump noticed.
She announced herself as one of four Republicans—and the loudest next to Rep. Tom Massie—defying Trump’s efforts to bury the Epstein files, demanding that the House vote to release them.
Now there were other figures on the Right who joined her in this fight, as they’d promised to release the files for years if Trump were elected, while implying all wrongdoing had been done by them darn Demon-crats.
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The problem is, Trump appears in Epstein’s little log more times than Jesus in the New Testament. So Trump did what he always does—lied and tried to go back on his promise to give them to the public.
But, for once, a movement raised on a diet of pizza-place-basement sexual enslavement fantasy—at the hands of Hillary Clinton, of course—would not let one of Trump’s lies just flitter away. I mean this was, after all, theoretically the raison d’etre for the existence of QAnon.
Yet, MTG’s anti-Trump perfidy didn’t end there. After breaking with him on Epstein, she shocked many a conservative by also coming out in favor of extending Obamacare subsidies.
Let’s just say as nicely as possible, I’m not a fan. But I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district.
Maybe she did some polling in her very right-wing district and saw Trump bleeding red-hats. From farmers whose livelihoods he destroyed by deporting their workforce, to small businesses he wrecked by tariff-ing their products.
Or perhaps it was because she realized her voters were the ones who’d be hurt most by not funding the subsidies, and she had a pang of guilt (I’m still skeptical). Or she realized when people couldn’t see a doctor and died because Trump took their healthcare, that’d create what we in the political business call “a sh*t sandwich.”
Whatever her reasoning, MTG began to step up her disagreements with Trump, while couching it in the language of “I’m not attacking him, I’m doing what’s in his best interest.” But, ya see, that could only last so long. He’s a broken toy, after all.
Let’s recall Trump destroyed the career of the first Senator to support his run for President, Jeff Sessions, at a time when he really needed it. All because when Trump made the old coot Attorney General, Sessions wouldn’t just break law for him willy-nilly whenever he asked.
Trump to actually endorsed Sessions’ opponent when he tried to run for his old Alabama Senate seat again—because with Trump outgoing loyalty is a cul-de-sac…with a giant sinkhole.
Which brings us back to MTG. It was never gonna end well once Trump started asking others in the White House “what’s going on with mother?” Oh, wait, different weirdo. Trump actually asked “what’s going on with Marjorie?”
And when nobody could answer his question, the spoiled little hobbledeohoy had all he could take of her undermining him, no matter how she tried to hide it behind kind words. So Trump, as is his way (and as he’s described it), “blew his stack.”
Per usual, a psychologist, and a 5th grade English class, could have a field day with this. But let’s stick with the main event. Trump teed off.
MTG, though in not in the personal terms he used, finally responded publicly, calling his behavior “vicious and unwarranted.” (I’d argue this is a summary of his life). Yes, not as harsh as his attacks, but she continued, and her hits were more politically astute.
She went after Donny Ding Dong on his support for H-1B visas to bring “skilled foreign workers” here (because he said we lack the “talent”), and his support for Netanyahu, saying “those are not America first positions.”
This while Trump’s losing his base by seemingly trying to make Marie Antoinette look like Oliver Twist.
He’s sending billions to bailout Argentina as they take our soybean market from China because of his idiotic, yet likely somehow Trump-enriching, tariffs. He’s golded-up the Oval Office to obscenity, thrown Great Gatsby self-celebratory jamborees, is building a huge ballroom…for himself.
This as he skyrockets inflation on the non-essentials of food and healthcare, while cutting funding for…food and healthcare. Mostly clobbering his own voters! At what point does it start to just feel like he accepted a dare? Or had someone used hand puppets to explain the French and Russian Revolutions, and thought, “What can I do to reach Romanov and Sun King levels of asshole?”
Marge, in case anyone didn’t get her point, made it clear in her follow-up hit on Trump:
It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level. But really most Americans wish he would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are fed up with foreign wars and foreign causes, are going broke trying to feed their families, and are losing hope of ever achieving the American dream.
Trump responded the only way he knows how…with more personal attacks, sending his hygienically-challenged Truth Social mob after her:
Let’s break for a second to point out that if you feel the need to explain a nickname, it sucks. Seriously, “Green turns to Brown where there is ROT involved??” Ok, thanks, professor. But I digress.
Trump calls her a traitor twice in this post, which is him trying to threaten her. It worked. Her son got two death threats. Now I won’t blame anyone who feels no sympathy for her after all she’s done, but let’s be honest about what he’s doing.
And let’s put it like this: if you think the Epstein Files have sick Trump secrets, can you imagine what Marge could share were she to decide to talk? She was in meetings at The Willard Hotel after the 2020 election, where they discussed how to derail democracy. God only knows what other meetings she’s been a part of or witnessed.
So, yes, it’s Godzilla vs King Kong. And this time, it’s personal.
Except instead of skyscrapers getting flattened, it could be MAGA. You have Trump, the lumbering narcissistic behemoth fueled by grievance and a nauseating color of spray tan. And Marge is providing a road map for others of the alienated to attack him.
And then there’s Greene, the (former?) shrieking QAnon banshee long powered by delusion and CrossFit rage. Watching them fight is like watching a typhoon argue with a tornado over who wrecked the trailer park, when they both did.
But here’s a deeper truth that makes the fight so telling. Trump’s feud with Greene isn’t just personal, it’s structural. To quote Agent Smith taunting Neo in The Matrix as a train approaches: You hear that, Mr. Anderson?.. That is the sound of inevitability..
Again, a movement built entirely on anger, paranoia, and self-worship, with some of the most maladjusted humans this side of Jonestown, would always eventually devour itself. It’s toddlers lacking superegos going at it. It’s Lord of the Flies.
MAGA was never an ideology. It was a personality disorder with a flag.
When Trump was ascendant, everyone could project their madness onto him. Now that he’s old, frail, purple-ish, more erratic, and staring at a future Truth & Reconciliation Committee should he lose power, his worshippers are turning on each other for attention and to grab hold of whatever MAGA scraps they can masticate.
You can see it everywhere. Ted Cruz sniping at Tucker Carlson. Elon Musk ripping Stephen Miller. Hell, Musk even took Miller’s wife with him when he left DOGE. Laura Loomer bellowing at Nick Fuentes—i.e. a person who chained herself to the door at Twitter HQ in New York because..who knows, vs an actual Nazi.
And JD Vance. Nobody likes JD Vance, likely most of all his Indian-American wife who’s an inconvenient religion and color for his new white supremacist friends. Ok, Peter Thiel still likes JD. But nobody likes Peter Thiel.
It’s The Real Housewives of Himmler, except fewer morals and worse hair. The through-line is clear: when your cult is populated entirely by people who can’t share a spotlight without biting the hand that shines it, collapse isn’t just likely, it’s inevitable. Like Agent Smith said.
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And the result, as MAGA crumbles, is Trump’s weakness is everywhere. A man who once demanded fealty and got it is now begging for it and not getting it. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s revolt, perhaps opportunistic, perhaps pathetic, TBD—is still the beginning of the end.
She was the truest true believer, someone who once groped a cardboard cutout of him in front of an audience. If even she’s clawing at him, this after he’s been ditched by Fuentes, Candace Owens, and many other far right nutbars, he’s in trouble.
Lauren Boebert is rejecting Trump’s Situation Room recruitment speeches, Nancy Mace is sending his calls to voicemail. So many Republican members of the House said they’d vote for the Epstein bill—i.e. directly against Trump’s wishes—he’s now pretending he supports it.
You know this only gets worse. For him.
Trump’s entire empire was built on the illusion of strength. This feud rips that mask off and shows what’s really underneath: a lonely, fading narcissist and his army of imitators, tearing each other apart for the last dollops of relevance.
So yes, enjoy the fireworks. The Godzilla-Kong-Typhoon-Tornado Royale. This is not to say what replaces MAGA won’t be better or less dangerous; a lot of that is up to how hard we’re willing to fight and how hard they fight each other.
But this is what the beginning of the end of MAGA looks like. Not with a bang, but with a brood of self-obsessed sociopaths eating their own.
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