Liberation Day

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— Aes?? (@AesPolitics1) February 27, 2026

When MAGA begins to realize Trump 2.0 is just another neocon Presidency:

– Tax Cuts For The Wealthy.
– Tax increases for working Americans.
– Increasing Deficit and Debt.
– Weakening Economy.
– Brazen Corruption.
– Middle East Regime Change War. pic.twitter.com/ktOWnEbBKY

— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) February 28, 2026

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— Curt Mills (@CurtMills) February 28, 2026

Remember what you’re fighting for G.I. pic.twitter.com/LxQJsVS8xP

— Yugocana (@Yugocana) February 28, 2026

I think it is finally over.

The Trump era which began on June 16, 2015 when Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower in New York and announced he was running for president ended on February 28, 2026. Ever since then, the Trump personality cult has dominated conservatism, the Right, the Republican Party and has been the axis around both political parties and their coalitions have turned.

This remained true even after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and was sent into exile at Mar-a-Lago when Joe Biden was president. The MAGA base was easily persuaded that the 2020 election had been stolen from Trump because of election fraud. They did not get over it and he easily won the 2024 primary in a landslide. The cult of personality retained its grip on the Republican base. Most of what had previously been the Alt-Right or Dissident Right was absorbed into conservatism after 2019. All of that discontent and energy was bottled and redirected into advancing Trump and his sponge-like movement.

If Donald Trump had narrowly lost the 2024 election, this would still be the case. The MAGA base would still be day dreaming about Trump crushing the Deep State, ending the wars, arresting the pedophiles, deporting all the illegals and addressing various other populist grievances which had been integrated into his coalition. Trump would have exploited these fantasies and ran again for president in 2028. He would have easily won the primary again. We would have gotten the same outcome. By sitting out the 2020 election in disgust, some of us only succeeded in kicking the can down the road.

I would still be sitting here writing articles about polls which show our views were going mainstream. I would still be hopeful that we were “moving the Overton Window” and would ultimately succeed in electing candidates who would take over and reform the Republican Party. I could imagine a scenario where based Gentile billionaires like Elon Musk replaced the aging Zionist donor class who had corrupted the Republican Party for a generation. Trump would still be posting on Truth Social about ending the wars and that would resonate because Kamala Harris would have doubled down on the Ukraine war.

Lots of people thought that Trump losing in 2020 or 2024 would allow us to move beyond this. I believed that in 2020 which is why I sat out the 2020 election. The single most important reason why I voted for Trump in 2024 is because I doubted it. By winning the 2024 election, Trump would be barred under the Constitution from running for a third term. For better or worse, MAGA would be wrapped up by the 2030s. We would have clarity and closure on the promises of the Trump era.

I was not willing to accept the alternative which was a senile 82-year-old Donald Trump running for president for the fourth time, dancing to the YMCA song, typing out book length tweets on Truth Social and potentially leaving office in 2033 when my eldest son would be in college. This has gone on long enough. It has been over a decade. The George W. Bush era and the Obama era feel like the distant past. I’m tired of writing about the same man dominating the news cycle year after year.

After Liberation Day, I am confident that Donald Trump will never be perceived the same way again. The whole project of reforming the Republican Party will be seen as a fool’s errand. The populist energy that Trump and MAGA succeeded in capturing and redirecting into electing people like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham is breaching containment. The divorce from MIGA has been finalized. Trump will never be perceived in this space again as anything but a kikeslave who is dogwalked by Netanyahu.

As for the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election, I plan on skipping both of them. After a decade of wasting my time on MAGA, I don’t plan to reengage in politics until the 2030s. I will write about politics and continue to follow the news, but I am not supporting either side. I’m not going to encourage or discourage people from voting. If that is your thing, carry on with it. I have other things to do. I’m not really changing course here. I realized where this was going last summer after Operation Midnight Boomer, the Epstein Files and the AIPAC purge of Thomas Massie. Overall though, I think this is a real turning point for millions of people in the rightwing dissident space. There is no coming back from this.

Looking ahead, I think we are on course for a repeat of the Obama years. 2026 reminds me in some ways of the 2006 midterm election cycle. Ex-MAGA people will be adrift as Independents. The Democrats are running against an unpopular war with Iran. The late 2000s were also a vibrant age of dissident politics when people who despised George W. Bush era conservatism began to find each other. The corpse of MAGA will continue to linger on, but “MAGA Republicans” will be indistinguishable now from senior citizens who watch FOX News.