Support for the MAGA movement among two factions is “cracking,” according to Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp.
“Hostility to the left is what brought disparate groups together under the Trump banner,” Beauchamp said. “But now, in a world where the administration has to govern, some of those factions are bound to feel like they’re losing or even betrayed.”
One blow-up he points to is “who should determine the philosophical identity of MAGA.”
Two people who are vying to control the philosophical identity in MAGA world are anti-woke pundit James Lindsay and Israeli intellectual Yoram Hazony. Their debate questions if MAGA can identify as the “woke-right.”
Lindsay has previously written, “Woke Right are ‘right-wing’ people who have mostly adopted an identity-based victimhood orientation for themselves to bind together as a class.”
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Additionally, he believes, “the Woke Left, then, they happily offer the trade-off usually used to describe Marxists: people who will ask you to trade some of your liberty so that they might hurt your enemies for you.”
According to Beauchamp, prominent GOP names like Tim Pool, Mike Cernovich, and Anna Khachiyan have recently questioned Lindsay.
But biologist Colin Wright and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon have shown Lindsay support.
Hazony, for his part, believes calling conservatives the "woke right” an outrage. Hazony has previously said the “woke right” is mistaken.
“They think (mistakenly) that the war on ‘woke’ is basically over and that our side has already won,” Hazony wrote. “They think (mistakenly) that they can safely turn their attention to trying to remove nationalists and genuine conservatives from whatever positions [of] influence they’ve succeeded in gaining in the last ten years.”
According to Beauchamp, “Each of these fights is telling in their own right. The 'woke right' contretemps shows just how deep the divisions go inside the Trump world.”
