{"id":5449,"date":"2026-08-27T22:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:08:54","slug":"the-broken-men-gop-insider-exposes-shame-fueling-magas-new-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"The broken men: GOP insider exposes shame fueling MAGA\u2019s new fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Three-time Republican speechwriter Peter Wehner says he knows what fuels the fury that sent President Donald Trump and MAGA into a frenzy over the Natalie Harp debacle.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5447\">Trump\u2019s family money fair game after Dems \u2018maul\u2019 GOP in November: report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2016, Trump found a constituency already primed for grievance, and taught it to want more. His supporters have kept themselves in a state of frenzy ever since. They need to be perpetually outraged, aggrieved, and insulted. MAGA world has become addicted to the feeling. It delivers a jolt of adrenaline, it provides a feeling of social belonging, and it gives people a sharpened sense of purpose,\u201d said Wehner, describing the unique rage-fit that seized MAGA social media accounts and the White House media room after a Georgia Democrat made a sneering reference to Trump\u2019s fawning dependence on a young blonde helper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey see themselves as warriors in a drama of their own construction. They view their opponents \u2014 Democrats, progressives, critics of Trump \u2014 as personifications of evil. Inflicting pain on their enemies feels good, really good, and it feels just.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wehner said Trump is aware of the rage he kindles in MAGA-world, of course. It\u2019s why he once told his supporters: \u201cI am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia senator\u2019s snipe was \u201ca response to Trump\u2019s collapsing support and the fracturing MAGA movement,\u201d Wehner said, and it came at a time when Trump supporters desperately need common ground and a common enemy. The senator\u2019s comments gave them \u201ca chance to lash out, to go on the offensive, and to shake feelings of powerlessness and impending doom. At a time when defending Trump is nearly impossible, attacking his opponents becomes imperative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there\u2019s something else going on as well, at least with one subgroup of Trump supporters,\u201d Wehner added, \u201c\u2026 many radio and television commentators, podcasters, and members of Congress among them \u2014 who were dedicated conservatives before Trump came along. They believed character was destiny and virtue mattered; they revered the rule of law, institutions, and norms; they championed free trade and free markets, fiscal responsibility, and a strong Western alliance; and they opposed patrimonialism, corruption, and lawlessness in the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These same people had to surrender all those commitments and much more to support a cad like Trump, and they know it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of speaking out against him, even when they knew better, was simply too high. They wanted to stay in the good graces of those in power. So they broke. And they know they broke,\u201d said Wehner. \u201cThis has caused a painful degree of cognitive dissonance within many of them. They want to think better of themselves \u2014 and others to think better of them \u2014 than their actions warrant. What they see in Ossoff\u2019s comments is a chance to signal that they are still who they once were, or at least seemed to be. In this case, they are portraying themselves as enraged at Ossoff\u2019s \u2018misogynistic lies.\u2019 His comments are \u2018repulsive\u2019 and \u2018guttersnipe statements.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5445\">C-Span callers hang \u2018idiot\u2019 Trump by his toes in searing spate of takedowns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They adore finally getting to call a Democrat a \u201cdisgusting coward\u201d and a \u201cdisgusting pig,\u201d said Wehner. It soothes the rotten spot created by their own cowardly pig in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne can almost hear, from the distant past, their words of moral outrage at Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Of course, in this case, Trump supporters have aligned themselves with a man who was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming a woman. Who falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal with a porn star shortly after the birth of his child. Who celebrated his affairs through tabloids. Who said if you have power, you can \u201cgrab \u2019em by the [privates].\u201d Who has called women \u2018fat pigs\u2019 and \u2018piggy,\u2019 \u2018slobs\u2019 and \u2018disgusting animals,\u2019 and \u2018horseface.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump had even suggested that tough questioning by a woman was due to her monthly period, Wehner said. And he\u2019s said that \u201cit doesn\u2019t really matter\u201d what the media write \u201cas long as you\u2019ve got a young and beautiful piece of [body].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But nobody flew into a rage over Harp like Trump, Wehner believes, because the Ossoff sting made clear that Trump is a sundowning president with emerging mental decline who requires a \u201cdiaper nurse\u201d to keep him walking in a straight line at public events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s novel <em>The Autumn of the Patriarch<\/em> is about an unnamed dictator, an illiterate who rises to power and brutally takes control of a country. \u2026 The \u2018autumn\u2019 in the title refers to the corrupt patriarch\u2019s physical and mental decay, his growing paranoia, his psychological isolation, and his inability to form genuine human connections. He surrounds himself with sycophants, creating a false reality, complete with fake news and newspapers, including a single copy of the national daily newspaper \u2014 the news rewritten to please him, created only for the dictator. He needs it to maintain his \u2018throne of illusions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we know, thrones of illusion do collapse,\u201d Wehner added, \u201cand not only in novels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5443\">One \u2018twisted\u2019 legal principle could hand Trump just what he wants<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Republican speechwriter exposes the hidden cognitive dissonance torturing old-school conservatives who traded away their morals for a front-row seat to Trump\u2019s final breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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