The cancer of divisiveness is eating away at the Republican Party, and it’s time we acknowledged an uncomfortable truth: social media has polluted our movement with the very collectivist thinking we once rejected. We’ve become so obsessed with ideological conformity that we’re destroying the beautiful diversity of thought that makes the GOP a party of individuals, not Borg-like creatures reading from the same script.
Consider what happened when President Trump weighed military action against Iran earlier this month. The moment he suggested potential U.S. involvement in Israel’s conflict with Tehran, battle lines formed not between Republicans and Democrats, but within our own ranks. Tucker Carlson, who had been one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, suddenly found himself labeled “kooky” by the president himself. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the epitome of MAGA loyalty sporting her signature red cap, publicly sided with Carlson against Trump. Steve Bannon warned that military action would “blow up the coalition.”
Was any of this betrayal? Hardly. This was principle in action.
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