The MAGA kids are not alright. An ugly cancer is rapidly metastasizing on them, one necessitating another long nightmare scroll into the dark heart of the malignancy, beginning with a precursor:

Last month Somerville, Massachusetts man Brian Sokol penned what is now his second op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency headlined “NYC voters elected a BDS mayor. Voters in my city went much farther,” a piece which at no point spells out what “BDS” actually means. It’s “boycott, divest, sanction” as in inflict economic pain on the State of Israel for the Netanyahu Regime’s genocidal brutality toward the Palestinian people and the unspeakable horrors inflicted on children and families in occupied territories. As for the “much farther” it’s Somerville having said yes, with a 55 percent majority, to a ballot measure asking “Shall the Mayor of Somerville and all Somerville elected leaders be instructed to end all current city business and prohibit future city investments and contracts with companies as long as such companies engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine?” on the same day that a smaller and bare majority of New York City voters – a third of Gotham’s Jewish electorate among them – had elected Zohran Mamdani.

Though literally non-binding, “Question 3” will, according to Sokol, in practice cost the city’s school district “more money and negatively affect local students and teachers” if they don’t buy HP laptops for kids because of the boycott of companies that do business with the Netanyahu Regime. Same thing if the city’s DOT doesn’t buy Caterpillar equipment. Sokol finds space in his lament for some soothing, writing that “less engaged voters were more likely to see it as a simple vote for or against genocide, which the text proclaims as if this were a non-controversial, established fact” and that the result “should be understood as a split decision. The ballot passed, but not by a landslide.”

Still, you can feel Sokol’s siege mentality, that the wolves are at the gate, and so on as he all the times his “post-Oct 7 ‘Stand with Israel’ sign was repeatedly stolen and vandalized just a few months into the war. This included a note from someone taped to the sign that ended in ‘Heil Hitler.'” That last part is obviously fucked up and about as counter-productive to the pro-Palestine cause as you can get… If it was indeed a pro-Palestinian who would be stupid enough to invoke Hitler.

Can’t trust everything you read these days.

Either way his piece also feels kind of dated, that it’s a relic of a past not at all distant temporally but on the wrong side of a shift in the political/cultural landscape. One that, if anything, seems to be accelerating further away from the heady days of “rampant campus antisemitism” from “Free Gaza” protests to, well, what Sokol’s fellow Boston-area native Jew experienced just a few days before JTA printed Sokol’s piece. Something you might call rampant campus antisemitism, without scare quotes.

We need a GoFundMe for Patrick McClintock. #JewishSupremacy https://t.co/1RJ8BCHk67 pic.twitter.com/Gv12CQ4jkB

— Michael Andrew (@Disciple4Lif) November 10, 2025

Patrick McClintock got a GoFundMe. Well actually the MAGA-coded ripoff GiveSendGo because there’s no f-ing way the more mainstream crowdfunding platform would’ve allowed a collection drive for McClintock after what he did last month. Insufferable fucking douchebag Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was filming another one of his “pizza review” videos outside a joint near Mississippi State University when McClintock – then a student there – threw coins at Portnoy and while screaming “FUCK THE JEWS!” The crowdfund’s up to $45,768 of its $100,000 goal to defend the now-expelled McClintock in court from a misdemeanor disturbing the peace charge.

Thaaaaaat’s kind of new, right? Not just this kid feeling emboldened enough to throw coins at a Jewish public figure and scream like that (albeit a fucking worm and credibly accused sexual abuser who has no problem using the N-word) but that a goy kid with no public political history whatsoever gets this kind of support out of nowhere, raising tens of thousands of dollars to combat “small hat supremacy” per the GiveSendGo’s organizer. You might be wondering who the hell Michael Andrew is but certain other figures are (or – important to the rest of the story here – were) familiar with him:

Yeah. None other than St Charles the Martyred himself (and yeah, Jenna “Private Jet Karen” Ryan, whose own legal defense GiveSendGo was a flop financially but a boon spiritually, follows National Zero for some reason, lol) found the apparently very proud antisemite worthy of a follow.

And not all that far from where now-assassinated activist was headed in his twilight days:

Sure seems like he was getting closer to where some of Kirk’s most prominent fellow right wing grifters are now, as in not really pretending anymore, at all, particularly the one who leaked those confirmed-to-be-authentic messages to help further her own narrative that Israel (and France) had ordered the hit on Charlie for his then-private “turning point”: Candace Owens.

She’s been around for a while, but it’s been this year that she’s been skyrocketing in views, all while her antisemitic edge has been sharpening viciously. And, as the Bulwark’s Tim Miller observed earlier this month, TikTok users looking for “Free Gaza” content end up getting fed into Owens’s universe of batshittery. “It’s right-wing, obviously MAGA people, but there’s also like kind of this horseshoe lefty folks that were involved in Gaza protests and all that who come by that earnestly.”

Owens will require a separate deep-dive because she’s such a singularly colossal nexus of batshittery as to merit it… And there are other leaked group texts to get to:

There were at least 400 participants on the Young Republicans’ group chat that leaked to Politico in a revenge plot by former New York City Young Republicans chair Gavin Wax – now a Trump state department official – two months ago, the messages themselves sent between January and August 2025. Which means that for months, 400 Republicans aged 18 to 40 would have seen “jokes” about the Holocaust (among other horribly racist shit) and the consequences only came when a Jewish former rival of the Nazi faction’s leader Peter Guinta pulled the trigger, prompting firings – including Guinta from his post as chief of staff to a New York Assemblyman – and the resignation of a Vermont state senator whose wife got particularly Reichy in the exchange, among other cancelations.

It was a pretty unique situation. The consequences part, not the Nazi-festishism and antisemitism.

Unless the kid simply hasn’t updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect that he’s currently looking for work two months after he was fired for hanging that little arts and crafts project up on the side of his cubicle, it would seem that this site was correct in its call that aide Angelo Elio would not be canned from Ohio MAGA Congressman Dave Taylor’s office. That “optical illusion” line of shit – that’s clearly tape or some other material carefully applied to the stripes – helped it all go away for Angelo.

Hardcore Trump fanboy-turned administration official Paul Ingrassia (these guys are not a credit to their fellow proud everyone’s-last-name-ends-in-a-vowel-Americans) might have been dealt a career setback when the Senate GOP quietly told him they could only get like 49 votes to confirm him to lead the Office of Special Counsel, but it’s not like he’s back living with his mom in Patchogue and bar-backing at Applebee’s. No, Paulie’s humping it as Acting General Counsel of the General Services Administration, still happily collecting a government paycheck and engineering ways to coerce female coworkers into sleeping with him even after Politico obtained texts in which Ingrassia wrote he does “a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I admit it” and “MLK Jr was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the 7th circle of hell where it belongs,” among other hateful shit. So not fired, it’s just that not enough Senate Republicans wanted him because that was the last straw – after years of hanging out with his dude Nick Fuentes.

Speaking of that particular devil:

This interview, and especially the segment in which it’s fast-forwarded to above, was something of a milestone on this road, almost two months ago and still its waves splash back and forth again and again and again. However in the interest of brevity and to not rehash the whole fucking antisemitism knife fight that was last weekend at Turning Point’s America Fest let’s keep stay in the lane of the actual target demo of the dearly departed Charlie’s empire. Buried in a lengthy New York Post report early last month about the drama inside the Heritage Foundation after their lead dickhead Kevin Roberts defended Tucker Carlson for platforming Fuentes was this chilling, anonymous quote from a high ranking at the fascist conservative think tank: “Talking with some of the interns I think that there are a growing number of them who actually agree” with Fuentes’ hatred of Jews.

That hit a lot of other people on the institutional right in the face like a brick.

Same mistake that the left made when they deferred to radical young staffers who ruined their institutions.

— David Bernstein (@DavidLBernstein) November 3, 2025

100%.

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) November 3, 2025

Fucking Josh Kraushaar such a worm (former Axios guy), of course he high-fives his buddy’s SIIIIIIICK burn of the left even when, you know, DC Dems aren’t exactly talent scouting among the keffiyeh crowd at Columbia and Oberlin. Still if it helped him get over the knot in his stomach evident in the top tweet, fine. But by this week even his shiteating grin – quivering back then, waning a few weeks later when he had to sit on Fox News and comment on how welcoming Trump was to Mayor-Elect Globalized Intifada. Wrote an understandably morose Joshy in Jewish Insider on Monday:

Oh seriously fuck that smug-faced son of a bitch. That’s my opener! ANYWAY…

Fun fact: That last guy is NOT Paul Ingrassia, but Marc Rod. Completely different antisemite that the Orange Yahweh is commanding his supplicants in the Senate to rubber stamp.

However it’s what he writes the third graf above that honestly for the first time in however many years of disliking him, that Josh Kraushaar deserves actual real sympathy. His restraint seems almost pained, like he doesn’t want to believe what they said so he just went with a pretty vanilla “Hitler made the trains run on time” and moved on to the next sad verse of his onyx elegy. He undersells it to avoid ruminating too much because make no mistake: It. Is. Very. Fucking. Bad.

The Bulwark’s Jonathan V Last was terrified and baffled, expressing that he simply couldn’t understand why the Manhattan Institute, which Last describes as having “gone from anti-anti-Trump, to Trump-curious, to pro-Trump” over the years, they convened this focus group of Gen Z Republicans and published the results. Because they are… not flattering to Trump supporters”:

That is simply fucking disturbing. They aren’t some edgelord trolls looking for clicks online, they’re randos doing so quasi-anonymously in a private setting, sharing their sincere feelings.

Now, as the old trope goes, focus grouping is not opinion polling as it does not quantify scientifically what a demographic is thinking. There’s quantification of this recent shift too though:

So 37 percent of “registered voters who are registered as Republican and/or voted for Trump in 2024” think it’s definitely/probably true that the Holocaust was exaggerated. It was probably this finding from their own polling that prompted the Manhattan Institute to hold the focus group.

Then there’s the IMEU Policy Project’s finding that Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s “net approval among Republicans who regularly watch Fox News is +49, and drops to +11 with non-Fox News viewers – a 38-point shift. Netanyahu’s net approval drops to -8 among Republicans under 45 who do not regularly watch Fox News, and stands at +18 with Republicans under 45 who do regularly watch Fox News – a 26-point shift.” Not as loud a klaxon, but it’s not great for Team AIPAC.

That’s if you take the polling at face value and ignore the Bradley Effect, response bias, etc, hoping that it’s just bad and not significantly worse like the anecdotal evidence strongly suggests: A world where the sort of shit below from a once-exiled TPUSA chick is getting normalized on the right, that their old chestnut of “hating Israel and hating Jews are the same thing” stops being a cheap shot at Rashida Tlaib and becomes an epistemic rallying cry for their next big project here.

I got kicked out of TPUSA 3 hours after this witch from stop antisemitism got mad that I said our country was being controlled by Zionist Jewish pedophiles.

Once they cancel you they have all their cronies write hit pieces on you for the first page of google searches.

You… pic.twitter.com/W9b97HJgNr

— Morgan Ariel (@itsmorganariel) December 16, 2025

This is a bad road and it’s turning considerably faster than even some of the most cynical outsiders might have imagined. The word “realignment” definitely comes to mind here in the most anodyne, political science jargon phrase. It doesn’t do justice to how ugly it could get. Guys like Brian Sokol and Josh Kraushaar should be able to live in an America where all they have to fear is their own exaggerated caricature of Zohran Mamdani and not that fucking viper with flowers on her cleavage.

She ain’t alright. But she’s popular on the right, and getting more so.

Editorial notes: (1) The Tucker picture is too good not to use, even if it kind of VERY GREATLY oversells his position in this particular piece. Sorry. (2) Follow-up coming soon, likely a week tops. There’s another current – flowing mostly in the opposite direction – that demands a deep dive in the very near term.