There is no split in MAGA

But there is an attempt to redefine who the movement includes and what it stands for. Human rights activist and author. Save Share As the midterm elections near, we are hearing a lot about a “split” within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) coalition, which got Donald Trump elected United States president in 2024. I understand the tragedy of MAGA a little differently: not as a split, but as a refusal by the best members of that coalition to abandon the solidarity we’ve formed between us. I had the privilege of helping bring this coalition together in 2024. It was a collection of groupings traditionally pitted against each other: social conservatives, pro-lifers, devout Christians, devout Muslims, devout Quakers, disaffected leftists, young first-time voters – all coming together behind a Republican candidacy. Together, we made history and delivered a moral mandate based on a humane concern for the human cost of unregulated borders, thoughtless warmongering overseas and the ruling-class politicking that had allowed a Jeffrey Epstein syndicate to go unpunished while the basic dignity of the “least of our brethren” went untended. In the campaign’s final stretch, Ivisited Syrian Christian churches in Pennsylvaniaand met Americans whose families had personally suffered the worst of what Washington’s foreign policy can do. In those communities,we talked about Gaza, peace and Trump’s promises. This miraculous, ragtag, all-American patchwork of people who supported Trump in 2024 truly became a people when they discovered their shared belief in the mission of electing a president who would break with the Washington establishment’s inhumane policies. Today, that coalition is remarkably intact. What is instead happening is that there is a concerted effort to redefine what MAGA is. In the weeks following the launch of the disastrous US-Israeli war on Iran, Trumpannounced“I am MAGA” and insisted on including in the brand the ideology of infamous neo-cons like Mark Levin. As a result, MAGA has now become a blunt instrument of the same war-hungry elites the original coalition aimed to depose. The brand is now on course to be destroyed this November. That, however, says nothing about the goodness and power of the movement that stood behind Trump in 2024....