"A Whole Civilization will Die Tonight": MAGAReport 4/7/26
The War in Iran is Destroying MAGA
“A whole civilization will die tonight,” Trump posted on Truth Social last night.
“He means our civilization,” replied one hard-core MAGA supporter.
MAGA is crumbling.
For nearly a decade, I have been monitoring this movement, especially the die-hard core of it. I speculated about events that could, possibly, break their loyalty to Trump: Epstein. His support of H1-B visas. Higher grocery prices. All of these caused ripples of unhappiness, but quite quickly, those smoothed out. When the War in Iran started, there was another flicker of discontent and that, too, seemed to smooth over in a day. As the war dragged on, though, that disapproval resurfaced.
I wrote last week that for the first time, we were seeing real, sustained disagreement in the MAGA community over the war. Yes, they celebrate individual victories (e.g. the rescue of the pilot who was shot down), but when it comes to the bigger picture, there is a lot of anger. This is especially notable on a forum where the first rule of participation is “Be here for MAGA and Trump”.
Last night, Trump made this post on Truth Social:
In the discussion about this post and the latest action in Iran on the MAGA forums I monitor, the top post is, indeed, supportive of Trump.
Timeline: Trump moves on Venezuela and secures some of the worlds biggest oil fields back into US hands. Oil that our refineries are custom designed to process.
Cuba falls afterwards due to being starved of needed resources so our southern flank is secured.
Now he moves on Iran and takes out their oil production forcing the parts of the world that relied on that oil to buy from us.
This is what a leader with balls can accomplish.
But the top replies almost unanimously disagree:
The inside of our house is infested with termites, but by god the lawn looks great.
This is what I’ve been wanting forever.
Are you on the board of multiple international banks perhaps
Cope harder why am I paying $4 for gas when I was paying $2.60 a month ago
Your forgetting... The 50 million barrels that we seized? That went to Israel.
Feels like Trump is doing everything in his power to boost up the dems for the midterms.
Whelp it looks like it is begging the question if we just entered FAFO time.
What if we’re the ones who are going to find out?
Wait, what regime has been totally and completely changed?
Trump must be a time-traveler.
Get ready for 1ten dollar a gallon gas
I hope whatever we are trying to do is worth the massive price.
Are we living in a simulation?
Ghost of the 70s fuel crisis may visit us with a vengeance.
Again, I’ll be happy to day I’m wrong, if I’m wrong. And I don’t mean some messy draw in the war and the support side of Maga is like ‘huge win’! No, I mean a conclusive win on the world stage and America is better off. I don’t see this scenario. And No, it was not worth losing both chambers by huge margins. That alone makes it not worth it.
He means our civilization. He’s making sure of it like nobody else before him
This is something we have never seen inside this center of MAGA.
Other formerly die hard Trump loyalists are seeing the issues, too. In the last 24 hours, both Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor-Greene called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked.
Outside these loyalist MAGA forums, we see the problems, too. The Proud Boys, who are more independent-minded but who have broadly been Trump supporters over both administrations, had one chapter come out last week with this post. “Still wearing that MAGA hat? Still ‘trusting the plan’?…The Republican Party must be completely destroyed.”
(Also, I love that they are quoting NPR ❤️🖤💙)
None of these people who are frustrated with Trump are likely to vote for Democrats going forward, of course. This crumbling within MAGA certainly has implications for elections, but I think it is more interesting as a sign that we are nearing the beginning of the end for the dominant political movement of the last decade…one that has challenged and changed the country in ways that, during the Obama administration, most of us could not have imagined.
Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what comes next. But I hope there are people in the administration or the military who will prevent the worst of what Trump’s post threatens.
Thanks again, Jen. What do the MAGAs think about the Orbán defeat?