Eric

I think we are watching the beginning of the post Trump power struggle 🇺🇸🤖 MAGA was useful. Trump was useful. But people like Peter Thiel, Alex Karp and Elon Musk are not stupid enough to go down with the whole MAGA ship just because millions of MAGA voters believed they were all one big family. Thiel is already publicly saying that Trump filled his administration with “not very smart but very loyal people.” Karp is suddenly reminding everyone that he has been a Democrat his whole life and still considers himself progressive. Musk always knew exactly what core MAGA was. He called people in that world morons and “subtards” long before pretending to become their political savior. My theory is that people like Miller and Hegseth eventually become expendable. Somebody has to take the blame for the failures, wars, immigration excesses and political disaster. And then there is JD Vance. The former Never Trumper. Yale educated. Thiel backed. Smart enough to understand exactly which role he had to play to inherit Trump’s movement. I believe Vance is the Trojan horse. The technology billionaires and ideological operators around this movement never needed MAGA forever. They needed MAGA to get power. Once that vehicle stops working, they can throw the red hats under the bus, keep the useful parts of the agenda, and start negotiating with whoever actually controls Congress and Washington. That includes Democrats. Not because they suddenly became liberals. Because they understand power. What worries me is that MAGA may die while something much more sophisticated survives it: a billionaire driven technocracy that learned from Trump, used Trump, used MAGA, and now tries to continue without either of them. Trumpism without Trump. Surveillance state. And definitely without most of MAGA.