Civil war is coming to the Trump movement

[bannork]

The Wall Street Journal's Joshua Chaffin and Zusha Elinson reported Friday that two camps within the MAGA world are emerging and will likely battle for supremacy during Trump's second term: on one side are "tech bros racing to create a new future," with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as the quintessential example, on the other side are "conservative Catholics who yearn for an imagined past," like Vice President JD Vance, who seek to upend the liberal establishment and return America to a "bygone era."

According to Chaffin and Elinson, the "dark prince" of the tech wing of MAGA is Curtis Yarvin, a pro-feudalist writer, who has called for democracy to be replaced with a monarch who would rule the United States like a CEO leads a tech company, whilst the conservative Catholic faction upholds ideologies like that championed by University of Notre Dame political philosopher Patrick Deneen.

Catholic theologian David Deane told the Journal that Deneen's 2023 book "Regime Change" offered a prediction that the second Trump administration would put a torch to traditionally liberal institutions like universities, the media and the non-profit sector. 

'Civil war is coming to the Trump movement': Expert says MAGA could soon tear itself apart

A curse on both their houses.

[jerrymahoney]

NYTimes headline today:

David Souter, Republican Justice Who Allied With Court’s Liberal Wing, Dies at 85

He left conservatives bitterly disappointed with his migration from right to left, leading to the cry of “no more Souters.”

(except watch out for Ms. Barrett)