A person wearing a MAGA hat sits near the National Mall as the Washington Monument rises in the background on the day the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 28, 2026. (Reuters)
As poll after miserable GOP poll continues to rack Republicans the MAGAsphere has entered a phase of existential dread, tempered with bitterness.
“MAGA will lose the midterms. MAGA will lose 2028,” wailed Bryce M. Lipscomb, a defender of President Donald Trump’s policies, on X. But not without also dropping a parting barb of contempt at his fellow opportunistic MAGA influencers he helped push Trump to victory in 2024.
“MAGA influencers will run America First and America Only and attempt to co-op the New Right after 2028,” Lipscomb added.
This is one of many examples of brutal acceptance that MAGA leaders and Trump followers are feeling as the president breaks promises not to indulge international “forever wars,” heaps new U.S. debt on MAGA’s younger members, and blasts the economy.
Other members of MAGA’s younger set, who invest in new age investment schemes like crypto currencies, are also disheartened at the depletion of Bitcoin under Trump’s management, with Evan Kilgore complaining that “Bitcoin is also down $60K since October.”
“The Golden Age isn’t real,” Kilgore admitted on X.
Others heaped blame upon their own Republican members of Congress, despite the GOP following in lockstep with MAGA’s greatest champion, Trump.
“We’re going to lose the [H]ouse in the midterms and Republican Senators are the reason why,” posted Robby Starbuck on X. “The runway to fix this is getting smaller and smaller. They likely keep the Senate and maybe that’s all they care about but their weakness and inaction has obliterated voter enthusiasm.”
Other despairing MAGA members had not only accepted death in November but railed Republican influencers daring to claim Republicans were not on their deathbed and that a non-vote was a vote for Democrats.
“Let me give those influencers trying to guilt folks to vote Republican even though they have done absolutely nothing for us and done nothing that was promised to us, a little tip. Instead of trying to belittle folks, your time would be much better spent pushing Congress and the president to do what they promised,” said Jan. 6 activist and election denier Trisha Hope. “You have about 8 months till the mid-terms, if we don't see results, you won't see votes, it's that simple.”
Still other MAGA voices were in no mood to deny the knife in their belly, and were bitterly calling down curses upon their slayer from some distant higher power — including natural selection.
“Even if the Right continues to lose politically, nature will do the job that conservatives could not,” said one commenter on X. “There is no world where Progressivism wins on a permanent basis.”