Trump Is Actually Failing Fast—and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It

Trump has spent too much energy “getting rid of one liberal judge,” Yarvin complained, when he should have been “getting rid of the whole legal system” and “the whole philosophy of government.” Yarvin is now so panicked about Democratic victory in Congress and the coming liberal vengeance that he has plans to leave the country. The moment for the Dark Enlightenment revolution has passed.

Into the vacuum has indeed poured MAGA’s opposition. The delays in Vought’s project have opened up avenues of attack by the administration’s opponents, whose numbers are now huge: Democrats, progressives, mass mobilizations of protesters, and rank-and-file Trump disapprovers, meaning at least 50 percent of us. More surprisingly, GOP showfolk are now gunning for the administration. Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t stop hammering the Republican Party.

On Tuesday, Asawin Suebsaeng reported in Zeteo that, last year, Trump talked obsessively about getting Vought laid at Mar-a-Lago. According to Suebsaeng’s source, “Trump spoke to Vought … about the ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful ladies’ who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it ‘weirded out’ some of his advisers.” So Vought, the Christian nationalist, was entertaining sex-coaching by the onetime best friend of Jeffrey Epstein? These would-be revolutionaries keep getting distracted. No wonder Yarvin considers their effort to checkmate democracy a bust.