You can tell Republicans know Donald Trump lost the debate because they’re starting to turn on each other.
Although not his VP pick, Laura Loomer is currently enjoying her turn in the spotlight as part of Trump’s entourage. She accompanied him to the debate against Kamala Harris and was seen with him the day after, which has troubled some members of the GOP who consider her to be “too extreme.”
Don’t get it wrong, Loomer is extreme, even in a party that has been overrun by extremists. She has referred to herself as a pro-white nationalist and believes America is a white Judeo-Christian ethnostate that is being destroyed by diversity and immigration. She made a name for herself by confronting Democrats, specifically Muslim party members and political candidates, in a series of videos she posted to her YouTube channel that I will not link to here.
She has occasionally turned her attention to members of the GOP who she feels have “betrayed” Trump. She confronted Ron DeSantis earlier this year because he dared to run against Trump in the primaries. These are the kind of bulldog tactics that Trump loves and rewards until he doesn’t. I’m sure Loomer doesn’t think this leopard will also eventually eat her face. But he will. Oh, he will.
Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene are rivals for Trump’s attention. They have both vied for Favored Nation Status at different points in his political career and for leadership positions within the party. Greene is also a terrible person who doesn’t believe “ultraconservative” House Speaker Mike Johnson is conservative enough. She also praised J6 defendants and had that weird, antisemitic theory about Jewish Space Lasers being responsible for wildfires in 2018.
The race to the bottom of the barrel between these two is a tight one on a good day. But yesterday, Loomer went too far for Greene’s taste with a tweet about Kamala Harris’s potential White House.
Some folks online read this and thought it meant that MTG has “seen the light.” She hasn’t. Or that she’s having a moment of personal growth. She’s not. Greene is worried that posts like Loomer’s make Trump “look bad.” She, like a lot of the GOP, would prefer Trump tone down his more insane rhetoric, and they blame the extremists in his sphere, like Loomer, for feeding him ridiculous misinformation like, oh say, that immigrants in Ohio are eating housepets.
Loomer did not take too kindly to being called out. She published a multi-tweet novella attacking Greene as a “leftist” and offered to provide free opposition research on her to anyone who wants to unseat her in the next election.
There are others, but it gives me hives spending too much time on Twitter taking screenshots for articles.
Will MTG and Loomer take each other out this election season? Or will they rekindle their BFF status for the sake of the party? The egos in play here are too big, and the deplorables who are still on Twitter eat this sort of conflict like it’s ice cream.
There’s never been a better reason to use this Ken Watanabe gif.