The next MAGA divide is China
This article appeared in The Hill on November 22, 2025
When Tucker Carlson released his interview with antisemitic provocateur Nick Fuentes, MAGA infighting exploded.
It’s not the first time MAGA has turned on itself over U.S. support for Israel. In June, clashes over Trump’s Mideast policy pushed him to speak out, declaring: “I’m the one that developed America First. I’m the one that decides that.”
Trump still drives conservative politics, but his movement is no longer a monolith. Nor is Israel the only international policy issue that threatens the movement’s unity. The next fissure may be China.
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Ransom Miller is a research associate at the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group.
This post is part of Independent America, a research program led out by Jonathan Guyer, which seeks to explore how US foreign policy could better be tailored to new global realities and to the preferences of American voters.
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