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)

[coolcarer]

8 hours ago, bannork said:

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.

A curse on both their houses.

 

So much hate. 

[bannork]

1 minute ago, coolcarer said:

A curse on both their houses.

 

So much hate. 

Disdain, not hate. 

[coolcarer]

1 minute ago, bannork said:

Disdain, not hate. 

Wanting a curse on them is pure hate. You can call it what you want. Your fooling no one

[bannork]

55 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

Wanting a curse on them is pure hate. You can call it what you want. Your fooling no one

It's utter stupidity what both sides are proposing: one wants a king, a throwback to absolute monarchy, something Europe abolished some time ago. The other proposes the abolishment of institutions that support any questioning of the authorities' line.

Fascism, authoritarianism, call it want you want, these are dangerous  systems that sadly exist in China and Russia today, to be lauded by Westerners today is indeed a shameful act.

[coolcarer]

More hate based on pure speculation from a WSJ opinion piece. 

[BLMFem]

2 hours ago, coolcarer said:

A curse on both their houses.

 

So much hate. 

Yes, that's what their houses are built on.

[candide]

11 hours ago, bannork said:

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.

MAGAs reading books and philosophers' essays? 😆