When belief systems break, they don’t disappear—they mutate.
We’re witnessing something new in the MAGAverse. Not from the usual suspects in politics—like Mitch McConnell, who’ll occasionally distance himself from Trump only to crawl right back—but from the base itself.
From people with 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 followers. The micro-influencers. The “just-like-you” voices with phones, opinions, and platforms.
And some of them? They’re turning on Trump.
Not all of them, of course. The hardcore loyalists are still out there, insisting there’s a grand plan—claiming he’s playing 4D chess, thinking long-term, waiting for the right moment. But for the first time, we’re seeing cracks. Honest disappointment. Doubt. Hesitation. That’s not a top-down shift. That’s a base-level tremor.
Some of this recent friction comes from the release—or non-release—of the supposed Epstein list. Let’s be honest: this probably isn’t the list. It probably never was. But that hasn’t stopped the right-wing media machine—the same one that’s been running on Republican fan fiction for nearly a decade—from spinning it into another demonic Democratic conspiracy.
And the real tragedy? It worked.
Now, people on both sides believe in “the list,” even if they disagree on who’s on it.
But let’s play along for a second. Let’s say there is a list. Then one of two things has to be true:
- Trump’s on the list.
- Or… actually, there is no other explanation.
This moment isn’t just about one man’s fall from grace. It’s about the machinery of power that built him—and what it’s willing to do to survive. Because even if Trump’s grip on the American political system loosens, the culture that created him remains. The fanfiction machine is still churning.
You see it already—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and the rest of the opportunist media class rewriting their roles in the narrative, prepping their audiences for the next chapter. You see it in the micro-influencers updating their scripts. You feel it in the air: the pivot’s coming.
But here’s where Democrats, Progressives, Independents—rational people in general—tend to get it wrong.
We get complacent.
We see the MAGAverse implode, or trip over itself, and we think: “Whew, that’s over.”
But it’s never over. Because it was never about facts. It’s always been about the pursuit of power.
Now is not the time to get quiet. Now is the time to amplify our voices—not because we expect the MAGA faithful to join us, but because we can’t afford to assume they’ll “see the light” just because they’ve been burned.
That’s not how belief systems work.
When disillusionment hits, people don’t go searching for truth. They go searching for the next story that validates their worldview. That protects their identity. That fills the void.
And if we don’t meet that moment with clarity, courage, and a cohesive message rooted in truth, someone else will meet it with another lie.
This isn’t the end of MAGA. It’s not even the end of Trumpism. It’s just a plot twist. A new chapter in the same dangerous story.
And if we don’t speak up, they’ll write the next one without us.
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Because silence doesn’t stop disinformation—clarity does.
McClure Magazine 
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