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Almost since US President Donald Trump started his second and final term, the movement that brought him to power twice has been fracturing. Now there is a full break among Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters.<\/p>\n
Its essence is simple: There are those who continue to identify MAGA with Trump, and on the other side of a widening chasm, those who remain loyal to MAGA but believe that Trump has not. The rebels\u00a0say Trump has betrayed<\/a> the cause and want to save MAGA \u2013 and thus the US \u2013 from Trump.<\/p>\n There are no official structures yet to what the MAGA dissidents call their movement, but it does have a de facto leader \u2013 popular journalist and podcast host Tucker Carlson. It was at Tucker\u2019s all-American place in Maine that the MAGA schism was made official<\/a>. There, several key figures of the evolving MAGA-against-Trump group met, and in effect, raised the standard of rebellion.<\/p>\n Not literally, but in the shape of an X post by former US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> (with 5.4 million followers). It featured a carefully composed picture of a merry rebel crew, including, apart from herself, Joe Kent, former counterterrorism tsar under Trump, Representative Thomas Massie, a long-term conservative Trump opponent, and Carlson, sitting at the head of the table.<\/p>\n Within days after the post, Carlson released a video manifesto\u00a0with the title \u201cIt\u2019s Time to Save America\u201d<\/em> on his own Tucker Carlson Network<\/a> social media channel (with 5.2 million subscribers on YouTube). Within one day,\u00a0it had over a million views on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n