From an essay in the NY Times about MAGA's infighting and other troubles:
The Trumpist movement has generated a lunatic array of semiautonomous online subcultures that are largely indifferent to strategic considerations and immune from political consequences while still exercising influence over actors whose decisions are not so immune. The disappearance of the informal gate-keeping function once performed by conservative luminaries such as William F. Buckley Jr. is probably permanent. In the absence of such authority, informed argument exists alongside phony outrage, profiteering, self-aggrandizement and saying things for the hell of it. The result is not merely the radicalization that Mr. Buckley feared but a kind of omnidirectional incoherence.
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The result is not merely the radicalization that Mr. Buckley feared but a kind of omnidirectional incoherence.
And yet, I'm sure somehow the Democrats will still manage to fumble elections through their own spinelessness, poor decisions, and insistence on fielding unlikable candidates with milquetoast policies.
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