Trump’s MAGA being RIPPED APART by Groypers

The right wing is eating itself alive and it’s a direct consequence of the choices they made years ago.

The Right Is Eating Itself Alive

Something remarkable is happening inside the MAGA movement right now. The right wing is eating itself alive and it’s a direct consequence of the choices they made years ago.

There’s a faction calling themselves Groypers, far-right nationalists who worship at the altar of Holocaust denier and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes. The term originated as the nickname for a fat, reclining Pepe-the-Frog style cartoon character.

The movement adopted “Groyper” as a mascot to distinguish themselves from regular Trump supporters. These are people who proudly call themselves “America First” but really mean white, Christian, and authoritarian. And now, they’re turning their fire inward, going after the very figures who helped build the modern conservative movement: Ben Shapiro, Ted Cruz, and others who spent years legitimizing Trumpism.

It’s poetic, in a dark kind of way, because they were warned.

For a decade, people have been saying: if you embrace Trumpism, you’re inviting extremism into the mainstream. You’re giving conspiracy theorists and bigots a seat at the table. And the right just laughed it off. “You liberals are hysterical,” they said. “You’re crying liberal tears.”

Well, now they’re crying their own.

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The Monster They Built

They thought they could control this. They imagined they could use Trump and the MAGA base for the parts they enjoyed, like tax cuts, deregulation, selecting judges, etc. And they wanted this all while keeping the dangerous stuff at arm’s length. But that’s not how radicalization works.

Once you normalize dehumanization and conspiracy as valid political discourse, you don’t get to decide where it stops. You don’t get to say, “Well, this level of bigotry is fine, but let’s not go full Nazi.”

Just ask Vivek Ramaswamy, who’s been confronted by Groypers asking, “Wait, Hindu? Not Christian? Not American enough.” They’re now debating amongst themselves just how openly bigoted and authoritarian they should be. And the so-called establishment people like Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Tucker Carlson are devouring each other in real time.

When the Right Eats Its Own

The Mark Levin vs Tucker Carlson feud is the latest example. Carlson reportedly texted Levin proposing a debate, saying there were “real and important ideological differences” between them. Levin read the text aloud on air and proceeded to call Tucker a “Nazi promoter” and “modern-day David Duke.”

That’s where we are now. Conservative influencers are comparing each other to white supremacists. And the scary part is, for once, they may not be wrong.

I hesitate to call any of these people moderates, but compared to the Groypers and Fuentes types, Levin and Shapiro actually are closer to the center, which tells you just how far the Overton window has shifted.

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The Lesson for Democrats

Now, before anyone on the left starts celebrating, let’s be clear: this isn’t good for democracy. The Groypers replacing establishment conservatives is not an upgrade. It’s a steep downgrade from bad to catastrophic. They’re more explicit in their bigotry, more open about their authoritarianism, and far more dangerous to democratic institutions.

And yes, Democrats have internal debates between progressives and moderates over purity tests and messaging, but there’s a key difference: our arguments are about how to expand rights, not whether rights should exist. The right’s fight is over how far they’re willing to push toward authoritarianism.

The cautionary tale for us is that if we become too distracted by our own infighting, we might miss how fast authoritarianism is normalizing on the other side. While we’re arguing about phrasing on trans rights or the perfect Medicare policy, they’re debating whether democracy should continue.

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The Bed They Made

This is the hell the conservative movement built for itself. Every time they laughed off warnings about Trump’s extremism, every time they platformed conspiracy theorists for ratings, every time they told themselves they could “control” the monster, they made this bed.

Now, they’re lying in it — and it’s full of scorpions.

The Groypers are their creation. The chaos is self-inflicted. And while it might be tempting to watch it burn from a distance, we’d better remember: when the right radicalizes, everyone gets burned.

We need to be smarter and more united, because this isn’t just a Republican problem anymore. It’s a democracy problem.

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