Dear GOP, MGT’s Exit Proves MAGA Is a Cult
- john raymond
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Let’s be clear about the frame from the start: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s implosion is a MAGA civil-war casualty, not a victory for the left, and certainly not our responsibility to mitigate.
President Trump turned his own shock trooper into a cautionary tale to discipline the rest of you. That is your problem. You built that system. You chose to live under it. Do not look to liberals, Democrats, or “the left” to save you from the consequences.
Greene’s resignation is not complicated. She was not driven out by woke mobs or Democratic prosecutors. She was driven out by the man and the movement she served. She crossed one of the few live wires that actually matter inside that system—Epstein files, regime secrets, and the suggestion that victims matter more than the leader’s comfort—and he moved to destroy her.
He stripped his endorsement, branded her a traitor, promised to back a primary opponent, and then celebrated when she folded rather than fight. That is cult behavior, and it is cult punishment. You fucking own it.
The temptation, especially for “respectable” Republicans and self-styled “normie” conservatives, is to look over at us on the left and say: this is going too far; we’re all Americans; we all have to stand up for people like Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene when they finally grow a conscience.
That instinct is wrong. It is wrong morally, strategically, and historically. You want an honest answer? Here it is: we do not care what happens to you inside your stupid fucking cult. We only care about the damage your faction is doing to the country. Those are not even close to the same thing.
You made a series of choices. You accepted that President Trump’s personal survival and ego would sit at the center of your party’s universe. You tolerated, excused, or actively cheered as he built a political-cult personality structure: loyalty oaths, alternate reality media, ritualized purges, the constant branding of dissenters as traitors.
You watched as people like Greene and Cheney were weaponized against us—against democracy, rule of law, and every guardrail that might have contained him—and you either applauded or kept your head down.
But now the knife turns inward. Greene is devoured. Cheney is excommunicated. Others will follow. That is not a tragedy for the left. But it is your deserved reckoning.
The point of this piece is not to offer you another off-ramp. Quite the opposite. The point is to tell you that the era of bipartisan sympathy for Republicans who discover, late in the story, that the monster they fed has teeth, is over.
Do not expect the left to rehabilitate your fallen heroes. Do not expect us to form a protective wall around your defectors while they still refuse to tell the whole truth about what they enabled. Do not expect us to absorb the cost of undoing a system you built because it suddenly became personally dangerous to you.
Look at Greene and Cheney as case studies:
Cheney did more than almost any other elected Republican to legitimize and normalize the Trump GOP. She drew one red line—an attempted coup—in a political life full of enabling everything that made that coup thinkable.
Greene, by contrast, dove head-first into the Trump cult and only wavered on a narrow slice of its depravity when it intersected with Epstein and her own sense of personal exposure and outrage.
In both cases, you are now asking us, implicitly or explicitly, to treat them as martyrs. We won’t. They are not martyrs.
They are insiders who helped wire the bomb and then belatedly realized they were standing too close to the blast. Their punishment at President Trump’s hands may be unjust on the narrow facts, but that does not convert them into our allies. The left has no obligation to rescue architects of this problem from its consequences.
If you, as Republicans and MAGA figures, want to survive your own civil war, understand the terms clearly: it is on you. You are going to have to decide, individually and collectively, whether you are willing to walk away from the cult you helped build.
That means more than a few speeches about “tone” and “civility.” It means naming what President Trump is, naming what his MAGA movement is, and accepting that doing so will likely end your career in the short term. It means losing primaries, losing committee seats, losing access, and losing the adoration of a base you spent a decade radicalizing.
But know this, we on the left will not cushion your fall. We will not provide the reputational rehab machine for people who want to step out of the fire they fed. We will not play the role of indulgent parent who swoops in to stabilize the family when the abusive patriarch goes too far.
That is the old “unity” script. That script died when you decided that regime security for one man mattered more than democracy itself.
You want to know why there is “so little” liberal concern for Greene now that she has been chewed up and spat out? Because we watched what she did with the power you gave her. We watched her harass colleagues, spread lies, whitewash violence, and try to turn the House of Representatives into an extension of President Trump’s online rage machine.
We watched Cheney launder war and torture and then pretend that one late stand against overt authoritarianism rewrites the ledger. The fact that the cult eventually turns on some of its own does not absolve them. It merely demonstrates that cults are dangerous even to their architects.
So here is the honest warning, addressed directly to you. When President Trump decides the next loyalist is a “traitor,” when the next purge comes, when yet another once-powerful Republican suddenly discovers that the leader is a black hole that consumes everything near him, do not look left for sympathy, rescue, or a soft landing.
The answer from us will be the same: this is your fault. This is your bed. Lie in it—or get up and burn the whole structure down yourselves, starting with your own careers and your own damn lies.
If you choose to remain in the cult, understand that we will oppose you as an enemy political faction, not as wayward cousins. If you choose to leave, understand that your penance is not a cable contract and a book tour about “how it went too far.” Your penance is still a full confession, a full repudiation, and an acceptance of political exile. That is the minimum price of credibility.
Greene’s exit proves that MAGA functions as a cult. But it proves something else that matters more for this message: the cult is perfectly willing to eat its own.
From our left side of the trench, we are not going to throw ourselves into the line of fire to save the people who spent years aiming the guns at us. If you don’t want to be the next one turned into political meat, that’s on you. Fix it yourselves—or don’t. We lefties are done pretending that your self-inflicted wounds are our emergency.
And so our answer will be the same as ever: all you cult-loving, traitorous bastards can go fuck yourselves.