MAGA is being split into multiple pieces, but the source is less like a knife and more like a slow-moving "infection," according to a former GOP lawmaker.
Former "Tea Party" Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (VA), a Trump-skeptic Republican who helped assist the House Select Committee on January 6 with its investigation, has previously sounded the alarm about purportedly dangerous Republicans rising to power.
On Sunday, he was asked by a host, "When you think about the ways in which Republicans and his base have bent themselves into pretzels over the years to kind of be in line with whatever President Trump is saying or doing, do you see this as a possible split, or does it matter about the the actual end result here?"
He replied, "I think it's sort of additive, right? I mean, when you're talking about MAGA itself, you know, I live in a rural district here in Virginia... But here's the issue. There's three things happening with sort of this infection in MAGA."
He continued:
"I'm saying, you know, it really is, it's almost like sepsis. I think the first thing is the Epstein files, because the conspiratorial nature of MAGA. I think the second thing really is Medicaid, health care, ACA, the cuts in the subsidies, because this affects rural America, which is a bunch of red districts, right? R plus eight and above districts, which is the other thing which I think is starting to infect and seep into the MAGA base. I think the third thing is MAGA is inherently nationalistic. So when you're looking at this, these are not, the base, they're not in policy meetings, they're not looking at what 2025 said about re hemisphering, which is what they said about taking Venezuela and project 2025. They're looking at more wars."
