Back in 2017, I wrote a piece about the likely fragmentation of the conservatives in Australia1. Here, most of the conservatives largely belong to what is ironically named the Liberal Party, with a few other small fringe groups soaking up the racist and religious extremists. That article was precipitated by one of the religious nutters in the Liberal Party, spitting the dummy, leaving that party and attempting unsuccessfully to start his own2.
In that conservative fragmentation article, I opined that the right in Australia is an odd mixture of libertarians, religious nutters, economic bastards (delusional conservatives), middle of the road conservatives and racist halfwits. They make for ‘interesting’ reading and televisual entertainment and, I am sure, makes the more erudite of the general populace feel like geniuses by comparison1.
I expect a similar fragmentation of the far right in the US may have already started, as some seem to realise that Trump is losing control, not only of his mouth and other bits of his festering carcass, but also many of his MAGAts.
Donald Trump is clearly a malignant narcissist3, and professional psychologists argued that the disorder they discern in Trump “makes him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous”4.
The bizarre conglomeration of supporters of Trump have disparate drives ranging from self-aggrandisement, cruelty, bigotry, imposing religious beliefs on others, support for Israel, and hatred of Israel. They fall into several broad categories which are listed below.
Opportunist Republican turncoats
While it is difficult to know the reasons that so many Republicans, who were critical of Trump in his first attempt to take over the Republican Party, have now kissed the ring and seem to be quite happy to see him destroy US democracy, I suspect it is simple opportunism on their part.
JD Vance, now Trump’s Vice President, was a very vocal ‘never Trumper’ calling Trump “an idiot”, “reprehensible” and “America’s Hitler” as Trump rose to power in 2016. Fast-forward eight years and Vance transformed himself into one of Trump’s staunchest backers, hand-picked by the latter to run on his presidential ticket5.
Marco Rubio, now Trump’s Secretary of State, hammered Trump as hijacking the conservative movement. He also mercilessly mocked Trump’s alpha-male status. At a rally, the Rubio said it was “time to pull off his mask so that people can see what we are dealing with here. … He is a con artist”. He added: “He runs on this idea he is fighting for the little guy, but he has spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy — his entire career”6.
During the lead up to the 2016 election, Lindsey Graham was one of Trump’s fiercest and most colourful critics, calling him a “nutjob” and a “jackass.” But he didn’t stop there. The same month Graham dropped out of the presidential race, he said “You know how to make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell … He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform, are fighting for.” In another 2016 rant, Graham said of Trump “I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office”, whereas, in 2017 he said: “What concerns me about the American press is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy some kind of kook not fit to be President”7. If that is not rank opportunism, nothing is.
So, I expect as soon as Trump falters and looks like being a terminal liability, those arse-lickers will very quickly backpedal away from him. If Trump is removed via the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which permits removal of the president in the event of incapacity, which seems likely, then Vance will become president, and the MAGAts will coalesce around him. However, Eyeliner Vance is not as popular among the MAGAts as Trump is. Despite that, he has been poking his head above the White House parapet to put out social media posts calculated to increase his popularity with the MAGAts. Vance is much more intellectually capable than many members of the administration, which isn’t saying much8.
The Epstein pressure on Trump is so intense that he has decided that telling Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files in full is now his best option for repairing the breach in his movement, provided the files have been redacted to remove Trump as much as possible. It is a ploy that underscores Trump’s waning power over the herd he has long controlled. His erstwhile loyalists are now fashioning a Trumpian politics without the need for Trump. In a recent interview with Fox News, the Trump said, “I know what MAGA wants better than anyone else.” When you have to say it, it is no longer true8.
What I suspected would happen is after Trump’s gofers commenced an Epstein investigation into assorted Democrats, this would be used as an excuse not to release many of the Epstein files because they ‘may compromise an investigation’. My expectation here would be that they needed some form of justification. However, they didn’t. They just didn’t release most of the Epstein files, and those that were released were heavily redacted. There seems to be no mechanism to make Trump’s regime adhere to the law.
Apart from such opportunists who have gone from disdainful to obsequious, some of the others who have kissed the ring include the following:
Christofascists like Russell Vought
While Elon Musk has clearly been a major influence on the Trump administration, the less well known, but much more influential, power behind the presidency is Russell Vought. Vought is the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – the nerve centre of the administration’s sweeping changes. Vought acts mostly outside the media spotlight. He is fully committed to a radical overhaul of the way the US presidency works – and his deep religious convictions have led him to believe there should be more Christianity embedded in government and public life.
He has vowed to “be the person that crushes the deep state”, a non-existent entity that Trump used as a cover to install a ‘deep state’ in the person of Vought.
Vought was one of the main authors of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the blueprint for Trump’s second term of office9. The aim of Project 2025 is to make the US a Christian theocracy10.
Tech and other billionaires
Billionaires like Musk (Xitter, Tesla), Bezos (Amazon), Zuckerberg (Meta), Brin (Google), Altman (Open AI), Cook (Apple), Murdoch (Fox News), Arnault (Louis Vuitton) among many others were at Trump’s inauguration11, to kiss the ring in the hope that Trump could give them more tax cuts, or at least not attempt to damage their business interests.
Peter Thiel, who donated a huge amount of money to Republicans during the 2022 mid-term elections, married a male in 2017, in Vienna12, and they have two children together. Although he has donated money to gay equal rights organisations, he has been quoted as saying: “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women – two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians – have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.” After this created controversy, he backpedalled and said it was simply a statistical observation about voting patterns13.
Thiel also isn’t a fan of diversity initiatives, which he has called “very evil and very silly” and, like most obscenely rich Americans, has used his money to try to influence politics. He threw his weight behind Donald Trump in 2016 and backed numerous anti-abortion candidates. However, the billionaire took a step back from political funding in 2024. One reason for this seems to be the fact that he realised that Trump was dangerously incompetent. Furthermore, his husband didn’t want him to give any more money to the political candidates he formerly backed. Maybe it’s because these candidates spend half their time yelling homophobic conspiracy theories about people like Thiel being child groomers and screaming that children of gay couples are in danger14.
Jewish zionists
Miriam Adelson is a committed zionist with links to right-wing figures in the US. The Adelsons (Miriam and husband Sheldon, who died in early 2021) became Republican mega-donors in the 2010s, giving more than $600m to support Trump’s three presidential campaigns and to back other Pro-Israel Republican candidates since 2015. Miriam Adelson donated $120 million to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Her position hardened after the October 7, 2023 attacks. She wrote a column in Israel Hayom – one of Israel’s most widely read newspapers, which she owns – calling for denying critics of Israel employment and public office, and the defunding of their universities and political parties15. This conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism is much the same remedy put forward by Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, in her dodgy report into ‘antisemitism’16.
Yoram Hazony is another zionist who supposedly is an ‘intellectual leader’ of the American right, and is said to have Trump’s ear (presumably the one which wasn’t ‘shot’). He set up National Conservatism in 2019, which he says forms the intellectual substrate underpinning Trumpism17. The irony is that he has been deeply troubled by the virulent antisemitism expressed by prominent MAGAts, after the former Fox News mouthpiece Tucker Carlson’s interview with neonazi Nick Fuentes (see below). This is often expressed as Jews being the “enemies of Christ”18.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is another source of funds for the Trump regime. One of its allies, the Republican Jewish Coalition has spent over $14 million since 2020. AIPAC has donated to Vice President Vance, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, Secretary of State Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Noem, Attorney General Bondi, Director of National Intelligence Gabbard, among others. In 2024, when she was South Dakota Governor, Noem signed a bill conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism19.
Christian zionists
Christian zionism is theological and political movement that supports the return of the Jewish diaspora to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, based on readings of parts of the bible that suggest that Palestine is a sacred land promised to the Jews by God. Even more bizarre is that Christian zionists believe that by blessing and supporting the Jewish people and the modern state of Israel, they themselves will be blessed by God. They hold that the return of the Jews to Palestine is one of the prophecies that needs to be fulfilled in order for the second coming of Jesus to occur. Religious nutters have been stating that the ‘end-time is nigh’ for almost two millennia and they never seem to learn when faced with the fact that all these predicted second comings haven’t happened.
It is this idiotic belief that is driving the grotesque, amoral American support for the state of Israel and its genocide in Gaza. Polling in the US suggests that a majority of evangelicals, some tens of millions of them, believe that the founding of Israel is prophetically significant as stated above. There is a very large lobby group in Washington D.C. which claims to have over ten million members, most of whom are evangelicals; it is called Christians United for Israel20.
Neonazis
Neonazis in the US were in the news some time ago with the torch march in Virginia. In August 2017, individuals from at least 35 US states across converged on Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It was the largest gathering of white supremacists in a generation. While marching these neoazis could be heard chanting “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and Soil,” with the latter being a 1930s German Nazi slogan (Blut und Boden). By the time this rally ended, a counterprotester was killed and dozens injured after a neonazi drove a car into a crowd21.
Trump initially refused to condemn the rally, and stated: “there are very fine people on both sides”. He later was forced to ‘clarify’ that he was not “talking about the neonazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neonazis and white nationalists” that “were there to innocently protest”22. Yeah, right.
In several other cases, Trump has refused to denounce neonazis and other white supremacists. In fact, he usually tries to put the blame on anyone from the left of politics (as much as that exists in the US), even blaming non-existent organisations such as ‘Antifa’
Nick Fuentes is a white nationalist who advocates pulling the Republican Party further to the extreme far-right end of the political spectrum. An outspoken admirer of fascists such as Mussolini, Fuentes emerged during the attempted 2021 coup, which falsely claimed that Donald Trump had won the 2020 presidential election. Some Republican lawmakers have collaborated with Fuentes’ America First Foundation. He sees America’s “white demographic core” as central to its identity. Fuentes and his fans call themselves “groypers,” which refers to a far-right meme based on a cartoon of a giant toad. At least one of Fuentes’ former allies, Patrick Casey, accused him of cultivating a “cult-like atmosphere” among his fans. In response, Fuentes stated he did not “think cults are necessarily a bad thing” and that “cults are really the only place where there’s … loyalty”23.
People like Fuentes believe that the diehard MAGAts are far too tepid. The new interlopers, an alliance of white supremacists, antisemites and theocrats, want not so much “America First” as “White Christians Only”, and in international affairs a return to near isolationism, including a complete withdrawal of support for Israel and a termination of what they see as malign Israeli influence (read “Jewish control”) over the American government24.
As I state above, the Trump Republicans and their supporters and donors are a bizarre mix of competing interests. The opportunists are there for self-enrichment and as soon as Trump has a stroke or dribbles down his shirt, they will get rid of him. The christofascists are there to make sure that the law is based on their peculiar reading of the bible (even to the extent of inventing bits that aren’t in it). The billionaires are there to make sure Trump doesn’t increase the amount of tax they have to pay. The Jewish and Christian zionists are there to make sure Trump keeps sending large amounts of money and weapons to Israel. The Nazis are there to drag the US further to the right, and making sure that no money is sent to Israel and zionism is destroyed.
Trump initially appealed to the poor, gullible punters, because he said he would fix the system that screwed and impoverished them, and would unmask the paedophiles running the world. However, all he has done, is make it worse for them, and to protect the paedophiles such as himself. Suckers.
Sources
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- https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201903/malignant-narcissism-does-the-president-really
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-nyt-ad-george-conway-pac
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-17/how-jd-vance-transformed-himself-from-never-trumper-to-vp-pick/104106988
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Thank you. An excellent analysis. I do very much appreciate your work.